James Baldwin always so clear cut. There is a passage where he describes being unseen due to color, class, creed, otherness. Something along the lines that the powers that be - do not see you, so not understand you - but you by necessity and exhaustion must see them, must understand them, must study and predict their moods, temperament and whimsy at a great cost to your own well being - but that it does become almost a superpower. To be invisible and aware and to try like hell to hold on to your inner dignity.