Quotes by : Colson Whitehead

And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all....

The land she tilled and worked had been Indian land. She knew the white men bragged about the efficiency....

The other patrollers were boys and men of bad character; the work attracted a type. In another country....

Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

A society manufactures the heroes it requires.

If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was supposed....

They don't give gold bracelets for regrets.

From the trunk of their scheme, choices and decisions sprouted like branches and shoots.

Mark Spitz didn't ask about Harry. You never asked about the characters that disappeared from a Last....

What a world it is, Cora thought, that makes a living prison into your only haven. Was she out of bondage....