“Dualism::In Ralph Ellison's Invisible ManI am outside of history. i wish i had some peanuts, it looks hungry there in the cage.i am outside of history. its hungrier than i thot.”
“I am not an outsider. I am an insider who discovered that everyone else had gone out.”
“There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It's not just outside, it's inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets.”
“History is not a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.”
“Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history.”
“I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door.I am in the house, and I have the key.”