“Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't know, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had a long road back to the campus before me.”

Source: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 9

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American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer 1914–1994

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