Quotes About Invisibility

All of my plays are about people who have been marginalized... erased from the public record.

I'm not invited. I'm not on the A list, haven't been on it in 20 years and my feet have never trod its red fluffy carpets.

I'm just really good at blending in. If you look at how I've grown up, I wasn't the best, so hanging back comes more naturally.

I wanted to get through high school anonymously.

Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 percent of the population exist.

He is simply a hole in the air.

More than anyone else, perhaps, the miner can stand as the type of the manual worker, not only because his work is so exaggeratedly awful, but also because it is so vitally necessary and yet so remote from our experience, so invisible, as it were, that we are capable of forgetting it as we forget the blood in our veins.

All people who work with their hands are party invisible, and the more important the work they do, the more invisible they are.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

I think, for a long time, people thought I was a figment of Phil Spector's imagination because they knew The Crystals, they knew The Ronettes, they knew Bob B. Sox and the Blue Jeans, but had never had met Darlene Love.

I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.

It's a self-obliteration that never stops and that no one notices.

We hide in plain sight, in our bodies.

Perhaps, however, it is the same with spinsters as with ghosts; and one has to be of their ranks in order to see them at all.

The reality is that each of our churches has created a Christian culture and Christian life for likes and sames and similiarities and identicals. Instead of powering God's grand social experiment, we've cut up God's plan into segregated groups, with the incredibly aggravating and God-dishonoring result that most of us are invisible to one another.

The greatest form of genius is that which isn't noticed

I crave white on white and black, but my thoughts race in glorious technicolour, prodding me awake, whipping away the warm blanket of invisibility every time it sears to smother my mind in nothing.

If I wear make-up, then people recognise me, but the rest of the time, no one really bothers.

Luckily they haven't heard me or if they have they've sense enough to ignore me. I wish I could ignore me.

To most people, Hans Hubermann was barely visible. An un-special person. Certainly, his painting skills were excellent. His musical ability was better than average. Somehow, though, and I'm sure you've met people like this, he was able to appear as merely part of the background, even if he was standing at the front of a line. He was always just there. Not noticeable.

She often wished she was pale enough to disappear altogether.

I knew he noticed the tress, and the mud, and the children in the street, but I had no reason to believe he'd ever notice me.

Black women have on one hand always been highly visible, and so, on the other hand, have been rendered invisible through the depersonalization of racism.

Within this country where racial difference creates a constant, if unspoken, distortion of vision, Black women have on one hand always been highly visible, and so, on the other hand, have been rendered invisible through the depersonalization of racism.