Quotes with invisibility

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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.

  Jean Genet
  French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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• Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness.

  Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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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.

  David Herbert Lawrence
  English writer (1885 - 1930)
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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.

  Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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• This invisibility [of Black women], however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

  Barbara Smith
  American lesbian feminist and socialist (1946 - )
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• This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

  Barbara Smith
  American lesbian feminist and socialist (1946 - )
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• When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  English writer (1874 - 1936)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• powerlessness
• opportunities
• anaesthetic
• conformity
• direction
• clearness

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