Quotes by : Colson Whitehead

White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy....

Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with the trees up close....

You should have gone yourself, you ask for a Coke and they come back with orange drink. No one understands....

Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless....

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

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

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is....

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

New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.....

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