"I had accepted their challenge, their insult, and taken it literally."
Power
"I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer."
"Without the possibility of change, life itself would be static and meaningless."
Change
"America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain."
Freedom
"It goes a long way back, some twenty years."
Time
"I'm trying to overcome my habit of irresponsibility."
Perseverance
"The world in which I find myself is without rhyme or reason, a senseless place."
Philosophy
"I do not know if the world knows the meaning of democracy."
Politics
"All sickness is not unto death, neither is invisibility."
Hope
"My grandfather's last words echoed in my mind."
Family
"The mind that has rejected the moral universe tends to see chaos everywhere."
Wisdom
"I had been looking for myself all along."
Education
"I am disabled by my invisibility, yet I have acquired a certain sustenance from it."
Strength
"We accept responsibility for our blindness."
Truth
"History records the names of the great. But I too have lived."
History
"The circumstances of my life permit me to speak with a certain authority."
Leadership
"I have become aware of the terrible significance of forgetting."
"Every period of my life seemed to have its own special meaning."
Time
"Liberty has always been the goal of this nation."
Freedom
"I must accept myself as I am, invisible or not."
Courage
"The past is always with us. It never truly disappears."
History
"I had never dreamed of such cruelty concealed beneath civility."
Truth
"Identity is something yet to be achieved."
Philosophy
"I am still learning. I am still growing."
Education
"The invisible man sees more than those who are seen."
Wisdom
"My task is to overcome my own blindness."
Perseverance
"I had been running from the question of my own identity."
"The price of visibility is high."
Power
"I must learn to face myself with honesty."
Courage
"Society demands that I deny my own reality."
Politics