Quotes About Visibility

where she imagines she's inconspicuous. This is the one benefit of being a migrant, of having effected this disguise so completely: they are nearly invisible. No one looks at them, and in fact, people take pains not to look at them.

C'est pour l'amour de la liberté qu'il devient « nègre » et se réduit en esclavage : pendant des années, son génie et son nom resteront invisibles dans les ténèbres de la sous-littérature

That doesn't change the fact that it's really hard to walk through the jungle when you can't see." "It's not the jungle. It's the rainforest." "Same thing." "No, it's not.

learning how to disappear is the best way I've found to make my true self visible to myself and others.

Other adults abused as children do the opposite: they believe they can accomplish nothing, so they don't try. They hold themselves back from taking chances because it is safer. Since success often makes one more important and visible to others, and since visibility is associated with being hurt, success means danger.

His masculinity was only too apparent

When you have no real power, go public—really public. The public is where the real power is.

now barely visible about 7 miles away.

Winter. It made things visible.

Well, the naivety and the vitriol were always there all along, Iris says. The internet's just made them both more visible. That's maybe a good thing.

I have a vision that the modern sense of being a hero is like shining a bright light on things that need to be seen.

De vegades soc invisible, diu la nena. En determinades botigues, restaurants, cues per comprar bitllets o supermercats, o fins i tot en llocs on de fet parlo molt fort, demano informació en una estació o coses així. La gent pot veure a través meu. Alguns blancs, en concret, poden veure a través dels joves i també dels negres o mestissos com si no hi fóssim.

Certain white people in particular can look right through young people and also black and mixed race people like we aren't here.

we will never see our own bodies, existing for the eyes of others.

Who wants to see us anyway?

This may feel true for every era, but I believe I am living in a time where disabled people are more visible than ever before. And yet while representation is exciting and important, it is not enough. I want and expect more. We all should expect more. We all deserve more.

These stories do not seek to explain the meaning of disability or to inspire or elicit empathy. Rather, they show disabled people simply being in our own words, by our own accounts. Disability Visibility is also one part of a larger arc in my own story as a human being.

I feel the blood rush to my face, fell that exquisite mixture of pain and pleasure that comes from being seen when you're vulnerable.

The "lamp of the poor" is hardly visible in urban southwestern Ontario, although there are many poor who move disjointedly beneath it. And the stars are seldom clearly seen above the pollution of prosperity.

He, the true writer, is the department store dummy at the very center of the whole establishment, the one left alone on display all night, a price tag stapled to every piece of clothing they've yanked onto him, binoculars and frog flippers included. He is the neutral, generic human form, the gray center who must always assume disguises — in order to be seen and, therefore, to feel himself.

and when you're the girl known for being invisible, there's nothing quite as scary as being seen. - Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy

Sometimes I don't know what I am. But what I would like to be on the outside -- what I want other people to see -- is a girl.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

We love wealth, and we hate poor people. I know people who work in TV news who have actually been told to do stand-ups rather than put interviews with poor people on the air. We physically don't want to look at them.