His name was Clifton and he was black and they shot him. Isn’t that enough to tell? Isn’t it all you need to know? - Ralph Ellison

But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand.

To see around corners is enough (that is not unusual when you are invisible). But to hear around them is too much; it inhibits action.

I was no longer afraid. Not of important men, not of trustees and such; for knowing now that there was nothing which I could expect from them, there was no reason to be afraid.