1. “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”
2. “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
3. “The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.”
4. “I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.”
5. “All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.”
6. “I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time been ashamed.”
7. “The truth is the light and the light is the truth.”
8. “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
9. “I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest.”
10. “I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance,
11. “Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.”
12. “Life is a war, and the battlefield is the heart.”
13. “The mind is a strange and wonderful thing. It can do almost anything you want it to.”
14. “Education is all a matter of building bridges.”
15. “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”
16. “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”
17. “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”
Summary: “Invisible Man” is a novel about a nameless African American narrator who struggles to find his identity and place in society. He experiences racism and discrimination throughout his life, and as a result, he feels invisible to others. The novel is set in the 1930s and 1940s and explores themes such as identity, race, power, and the search for meaning.
The narrator moves from the South to Harlem, where he becomes involved with a group called the Brotherhood, which claims to fight for racial equality. However, he eventually realizes that the Brotherhood is more concerned with maintaining its own power than with helping African Americans. The novel ends with the narrator going underground and embracing his invisibility as a means of resisting the forces that have tried to define him.