Recognized that the reader might perceive his story as a rant about racial identity, due to the natural tendency to be self-centered. He emphasized that he goes beyond this assumption and stated that simply by being a person, despite his race, he was a disembodied voice. He was an individual with a story that challenged public knowledge of history. More importantly, he shamelessly revealed stories of “hope, desire, fear and hate” that defined his way of being, “…images of past humiliations ran through my head and I saw that they are more than separate experiences. They were me; they defined me. I was my experiences and my experiences were me, and no blind man, no matter how powerful he became, even if he conquered the world, could stand it, or change a single itch, taunt, laugh, cry, scar, pain, anger. or his pain.”