Quotes by invisibility

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  Jean Genet
  French Playwright, Novelist 1910-1986

  

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  A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
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  Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil 1934-1992

  

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  Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness.
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  David Herbert Lawrence
  English writer 1885-1930

  

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  That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.
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  Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil 1934-1992

  

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  There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of conformity.
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  Barbara Smith
  American lesbian feminist and socialist 1946-

  

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  This invisibility [of Black women], however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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  Barbara Smith
  American lesbian feminist and socialist 1946-

  

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  This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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  Gilbert K. Chesterton
  English writer 1874-1936

  

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  When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.