Invisible Man

"Politics is a thing that has to be done."

"I was always inclined to hope."

"I did not feel any sense of shame or regret."

"One must take a friendly approach."

"The mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived."

"I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest."

"My invisibility, understand, means the outer world takes no cognizance of it."

"America is woven of many strands. I believe they must be woven together."

"I was their man, but I was also myself."

"All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was."

"I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves."

"The reality of experience is important."

"I accept their rejection and go on."

"Perhaps that is our greatest tragedy."

"Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?"

"I had been looking for myself all my life."

"The world in which I lived was without substance, a dream."

"Being invisible and without substance, a disembodied voice, as it were, what else could I do?"

"I went to the white college in the South, which had been founded for Negro education."

"I am invisible, not because of any biochemical accident, but because of the peculiar disposition of the eyes of those with whom I come in contact."

"War reveals human nature."

"Inspiration is rare and precious."

"Motivation comes from within."

"Relationships demand honesty."

"Solitude teaches self-knowledge."

"Work defines us."

"Leadership requires vision."

"Faith is action."

"Music expresses what words cannot."

"Technology is a double-edged sword."