Quotes by : Colson Whitehead

He had met this sort of white man before, earnest and believing what came out of their mouths. The veracity....

Cora blamed the people who wrote it down. People always got things wrong, on purpose as much as by accident.....

it means what it say," Ethel said. "It means that a Hebrew may not enslave a Hebrew. But the sons of....

Men start off good and then the world makes them mean. The world is mean from the start and gets meaner....

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

Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later.

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

Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us.

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....