Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man….featuring Oumar Ouattara @Chase Models NY
“I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted
Edgar Allen Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie extoplasms. I am a
man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids — and I might
even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply
because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see
sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by
mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only
my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination — indeed,
everything and anything except me.”
–from “Prologue” Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison–
Styling by Maurice J. Johnson
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I read The Invisible Man at 16 years of age. Growing up in a blue color predominantly white working class neighborhood I was forever impacted. I do not claim to have experienced the invisibility of true self lived by so many black men & women. Yet, as a closeted gay teenager ( at the time) I my inner self recognized the invisibility of so many at a very young age. Congrats to you for taking on this narrative in a way that is empowering. Peace.
1 comment:
I read The Invisible Man at 16 years of age. Growing up in a blue color predominantly white working class neighborhood I was forever impacted. I do not claim to have experienced the invisibility of true self lived by so many black men & women. Yet, as a closeted gay teenager ( at the time) I my inner self recognized the invisibility of so many at a very young age. Congrats to you for taking on this narrative in a way that is empowering. Peace.
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