Precious

“I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat - a bit of decoration to charm his vanity. An ornament for a summer's day.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“She did not tell them to clean up their lives, or go and sin no more. She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its inheriting meek, or its glory-bound pure. She told them that the only grace they could have is the grace they could imagine. That if they could not see it, they could not have it”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“What did I do To be so black And blue?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man