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Margo's Café

by Tom Milton

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Dec 31, 2025 04:57AM

“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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“They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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“And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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