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" I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids — and I might even be said to possess a mind. "
Black Chicago's First Century: 1833-1900 - Page 13
by Christopher Robert Reed - 2005 - 600 pages
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Efficacy of Drug Abuse Treatment Programs: Hearing Before the Select ..., Part 1

United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control - 1989 - 142 pages
...entrenched habituation has led to a condition which Ralph Ellison best describes as the invisible man: I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of...bone, fiber and liquids and I might even be said to posses a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. AIDS has been the...
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Efficacy of Drug Abuse Treatment Programs: Hearing Before the ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control - 1989 - 152 pages
...entrenched habituation has led to a condition which Ralph Ellison best describes as the invisible man: I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of...bone, fiber and liquids and I might even be said to posses a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. AIDS has been the...
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The Political Economy of Participatory Economics

Michael Albert, Robin Hahnel - 1991 - 148 pages
...and programmers in actual participatory economies or participatory economic experiments. CONCLUSION / am an invisible man.... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people...
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Violence in the Black Imagination: Essays and Documents

Ronald T. Takaki - 1993 - 362 pages
...not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people...
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Engendering Romance: Women Writers and the Hawthorne Tradition, 1850-1990

E. Miller Budick - 1994 - 308 pages
...not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids — and 1 might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to...
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Conversations with Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison - 1995 - 436 pages
...elaboration of the first paragraph of Invisible Man, with the hero's demand to be seen as himself, as "flesh and bone, fiber and liquids — and I might even be said to possess a mind." The mind of Ellison has been deeply influential. Even if Leonard Jeffries and Molefi Kete Asante have...
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Spirits Hovering Over the Ashes: Legacies of Postmodern Theory

H. L. Hix - 1995 - 234 pages
...not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe ; nor am I one of your Hollywoodmovie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people...
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The Agony of Education: Black Students at White Colleges and Universities

Joe R. Feagin, Hernan Vera, Nikitah Imani - 1996 - 212 pages
...not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywoodmovie ectoplaons. 1 am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and...a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because penple refuse to see me.53 A central theme found in our group interviews is this black invisibility,...
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Double Burden: Black Women and Everyday Racism

Yanick St. Jean, Joe R. Feagin - 1997 - 264 pages
...incident again brings to mind Ralph Ellison's portrayal of white reactions in his book Invisible Man: "I am an invisible man. ... I am a man of substance,...invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."10 The theme of not being seen in stores is common in our interviews and in other recent research...
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The Complete Armchair Book of Baseball: An All-Star Lineup Celebrates ...

John Thorn - 1997 - 856 pages
...rationale for keeping above-average, though not exceptional, black players in the minor leagues. II "I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber...liquids — and I might even be said to possess a mind," lamented the black protagonist in Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man. "I am invisible, understand,...
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