i am invisible understand, simply because people refuse to see me - Ralph Ellison

A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest.

For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words.