Quotes About Invisibility

I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar.

When I was in high school, I wasn't a nerd, I wasn't a jock. I wasn't a bad kid. I just flew under the radar with my homies.

There's a creative freedom with being under the radar. But I guess if you're too under the radar, you get canceled?

I mostly go under the radar, which is fantastic because I would not be a good famous person.

It's, you know, kind of nice to be under the radar.

I miss those days when I could just walk around under the radar and no one really knew who I was until I wanted them to know.

It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.

The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.

If you were to turn on the TV in 1986, '87, you wouldn't see anybody having, I guess, a low-to-middle-income person of color experience. And you definitely wouldn't have a young LGBT person or their story told. The experience of being invisible in our culture has ramifications that I don't think any of us can really understand.

I'm like this ghost - you look around, and all you see is the artist. But if you look at the credits, it's still Poo Bear.

If you look like a ghost, you feel like a ghost.

I myself, to be sure - I have as yet seen no great man. That which is great, the acutest eye is at present insensible to it. It is the kingdom of the populace.

The minute you become something they don't want to look at, they stop looking at you. It's that simple. You join the void. That much I'm sure of." Ford, G.M. (2012-07-17). Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca? (A Leo Waterman Mystery) (Kindle Locations 2431-2432). AmazonEncore. Kindle Edition.

La fatalidad nos hace invisibles

Fatality makes us invisible.

I would be remiss if I didn't say that it has been troubling for me to work within an institution that does not seem to recognize that I am a statistic.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the term brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members but often fail to represent them.

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

He wouldn't look at me. He stood against the wall, trying to merge with the wall.

Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.

Female erasure is and has been the essential tool used throughout history to ensure the success and continuation of patriarchal values.

Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seen—to be seen —is to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.