Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. - Ralph Ellison

They were blind, bat blind, moving only by the echoed sounds of their own voices. And because they were blind they would destroy themselves and I'd help them. I laughed. Here I had thought they accepted me because they felt that color made no difference, when in reality it made no difference because they didn't see either color or men . . . For all they were concerned, we were so many names scribbled on fake ballots, to be used at their convenience and when not needed to be filed away. It was a joke, an absurd joke.

The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.