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Colson Whitehead Quote: “It was where we mingled with who we had been and who we would be. Sharing space with our echoes out in the sun.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “Harriet Johnson was a slight hummingbird of a woman who conducted herself in everything with furious purpose.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “No one remembered the unfortunate who had lent his name to the cabin. He lived long enough to embody qualities before being undone by them. Off to Hob with those who had been crippled by the overseers’ punishments, off to Hob with those who had been broken by the labor in ways you could see and in ways you could not see, off to Hob with those who had lost their wits. Off to Hob with strays.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “The whites were right to be afraid. One day the system would collapse in blood. An.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “Gnaw on a disappointment long enough and it will lose all flavor.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “He was jailed for inciting riots that weren’t riots but peaceful gatherings.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “On visiting day, he told her he was okay but sad, it was difficult but he was hanging in there, when all he wanted to say was, Look at what they did to me, look at what they did to me.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “Cora’s mother and Ava grew up on the plantation at the same time. They were treated to the same Randall hospitality, the travesties so routine and familiar that they were a kind of weather, and the ones so imaginative in their monstrousness that the mind refused to accommodate them.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “They were treated to the same Randall hospitality, the travesties so routine and familiar that they were a kind of weather, and the ones so imaginative in their monstrousness that the mind refused to accommodate them. Sometimes such an experience bound one person to another; just as often the shame of one’s powerlessness made all witnesses into enemies.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “It’s one thing to understand the muck of things, accept it, live in it, and quite another to have that muck change so suddenly and dramatically, to stumble down to a newer, deeper shelf.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “EVER since she saw a woodcut of a missionary surrounded by jungle natives, Ethel thought it would be spiritually fulfilling to serve the Lord in dark Africa, delivering savages to the light.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “Now that she had run away and seen a bit of the country, Cora wasn’t sure the document described anything real at all. America was a ghost in the darkness, like her.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “But if people received their just portion of misfortune, what had she done to bring her troubles on herself?”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “At the end of the day when she propped him up and told him he could do it, he puzzled over these alien things she offered him. Kindness and faith, he didn’t know which box to put them in.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “George sawed with his fiddle, the notes swirling up into night like sparks gusted from a fire.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “She didn’t see anyone she recognized; their faces had been transformed by fear.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “Whoever has the better stuff wins. Sound familiar, American lackeys of late-stage capitalism?”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “Sometimes a slave will be lost in a brief eddy of liberation.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “He had a narrow raccoon face that drew Elwood’s attention to his tiny nose and dark circles under his eyes and thick bristly eyebrows. Spencer was fastidious with his dark blue Nickel uniform; every crease in his clothes looked sharp enough to cut, as if he were a living blade.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “Things are pretty much status quo with the sexual-tension friend.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “The owner of the plant store dipped her fingers into the soil of a pot earmarked for a city plant, one hearty in the way the shop’s customers were hearty, for wasn’t every citizen on the Grand Island a sort of sturdy indoor variety that didn’t need much sunlight.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “The white men who wrote it didn’t understand it either, if all men did not truly mean all men.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “He felt unreal those days of the riots when his streets were made strange by violence. Despite what America saw on the news, only a fraction of the community had picked up bricks and bats and kerosene. The devastation had been nothing compared to what lay before him now, but if you bottled the rage and hope and fury of all the people of Harlem and made it into a bomb, the results would look something like this.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “Reconnected the dead to the living world that processed without them.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “Picking had ruined his hands for delicate woodwork.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “Make the letters blockier, so you can see it, put some red in there. He read an article that said red was a color favored by nature to make animals take notice, and you had to be part animal to live in New York City. Made sense to use red in signs, Pepper thought. But no one was asking him.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “That was a temporary setback,” Zippo said. “If you call an opportunity to take stock and really think about how you can make your life better a ’setback.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “Carney’s father had torched a building or two in his day. It paid the rent.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “Even if the adults were free of the shackles that had held them fast, bondage had stolen too much time. Only the children could take full advantage of their dreaming. If white men let them.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “The paint hung in thin rinds from the ceiling, and the sooty windows turned every hour overcast.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “That was the man’s real trouble, not the savage and uncanny civilizations he encountered – he kept forgetting what he had.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “There was a message there, if he could teach himself the language.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “My first fight made me cockeyed,” he said, “and my farewell fight set my eyes right again, so trust me when I say this sport will break you down to make you better, and that’s a fact.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “I can’t help it if I understand that everything tends to ruin. Over our heads, Skylab is eternally falling down, I can see it all, the debris raining without cessation. I was a skinny guy, but I was morbidly obese with doom.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “The secret triumph you keep in your heart.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “Things are happening too fast for her to convince herself that she does not need time to think, to get to the bottom of things.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “What else was an ongoing criminal enterprise complicated by periodic violence for, but to make your wife happy?”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “He heard the sound of teeth splintering.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “Is this the truth of our historic encounter?”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “I contain multitudes, most of them flawed.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “America was big and blighted in gamey spots by racial intolerance and violence. Visiting relatives in Georgia? Here are the safe routes around the sundown towns and cracker territories where you might not make it out alive, the towns and counties to be avoided if you valued your life.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “My part is finished, my friends.” He embraced the runaways with desperate affection. Cora couldn’t help but shrink away. Two white men in two days had their hands around her. Was this a condition of her freedom?”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “They can turn rabid at any second; this is the true result of gathering integration: the replacement of sure violence with deferred sure violence.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “Understanding that something is always lost when it comes to human beings.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “Optimism skipped out on the rent a while back, but the cynic in the penthouse won’t leave until led out by marshals.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “In this world, however, his reward was that void attending most human endeavor, with which all are well acquainted. His accomplishments, such as they were, gathered on the heap of the unsung.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “To preempt rejection she dresses to exaggerate her difference when the true enemy is not the world’s disdain but its indifference. He is surely the next item in a dreary procession and cannot be seen for all those previous disappointments.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “It was a night in late August, a night that rekindled in rattling windows and tree branch palsy that lost recollection of autumn, misplaced for the succession of bright summer distractions, trapped heat in small rooms and sweaty underarms.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “In America the quirk was that people were things. Best to cut your losses on an old man who won’t survive a trip across the ocean.”
Colson Whitehead Quote: “I wrote two five-page short stories, two five-page epics, to audition for my college’s creative writing workshops, and was turned down both times. I was crushed, but in retrospect it was perfect training for being a writer. You can keep ‘write what you know’ – for a true apprenticeship, internalize the world’s indifference and accept rejection and failure into your very soul.”
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