Quotes about Visibility
But this is all about how very difficult it is at times for people to see who or what they are looking at, particularly when they don't want to.
— Audre Lorde
The arrows of death fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight cannot discern them.
— Jonathan Edwards
Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historical? What about the contemporary image of black people?
— Ava DuVernay
almost seemed to her that those secret, unuttered, critical thoughts had suddenly taken visible and accusing shape and form in the person of this outspoken morsel of neglected humanity.
— LM Montgomery
The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.
— Stephen Hawking
A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.
— Charles Spurgeon
The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water'.
— Ernest Hemingway
We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
— DL Moody
Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.
— Anne Lamott
I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away.
— Stephen Hawking
...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.
— Audre Lorde