Colson Whitehead Quotes - Page 2

• It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be the first time he'd experienced it.

  Colson Whitehead

  Couple, Firsts, Belief

  "Zone One". Book by Colson Whitehead, October 6, 2011.

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• When I was a kid, I'd go to the African-American section in the bookstore, and I'd try and find African-American people I hadn't read before. So in that sense the category was useful to me. But it's not useful to me as I write. I don't sit down to write an African-American zombie story or an African-American story about elevators. I'm writing a story about elevators which happens to talk about race in different ways. Or I'm writing a zombie novel which doesn't have that much to do with being black in America. That novel is really about survival.

  Colson Whitehead

  Writing, Kids, People

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children.

  Colson Whitehead

  Children, Technology, Clouds

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• The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.

  Colson Whitehead

  Cities, Persons, Knows

  Colson Whitehead (2007). “The Colossus of New York”, p.8, Anchor

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• As I get older and write more books I'm definitely allowing the humorous side of my personality more rein in my work.

  Colson Whitehead

  Humorous, Book, Writing

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• Soy un escritor afroamericano, soy un escritor perezoso, soy un escritor al que le gusta ver The Wire, soy un escritor al que le gusta comer mucho filete.

  Colson Whitehead

  Lazy, Wire, American Writer

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think the world's big enough for all kinds of zombies. You can have yours and I can have mine. I think by going with slow zombies I maybe have been asserting my own kind of zombie snobbery, but I don't begrudge the youngsters their tackling, running, jumping zombies.

  Colson Whitehead

  Running, Thinking, Zombie

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• When it comes to how the slaves treat each other: If you've been brutalized all your life - if you have seen your children sold or your mother beaten and raped and you have been tortured yourself - you are not going to be up for your best behaviour. Even in the 21st century, 100 people in the midst of terrible suffering are not going to be their best people.

  Colson Whitehead

  Madre, Hijos, Personas

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away realizing - not surprisingly - that many slave masters were sadists who spent a lot of time thinking up creative ways of hurting people.

  Colson Whitehead

  Herir, Pensar, Personas

  Fuente: www.oprah.com

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• I always have a few ideas that are percolating, and then after I've finished a book and it's a year later, and things are sort of festering and things are disgusting in my house and I have to get back to work, whatever project I keep thinking about is the one I end up working on. Sort of a very simple process of elimination.

  Colson Whitehead

  Libro, Simple, Pensamiento

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I think you're only post-racial when you stop asking if you're post-racial. When the Neanderthals finally stopped asking themselves if they were in a post-saber tooth society, that's when they were post-saber tooth.

  Colson Whitehead

  Pensar

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still cool but then they are calmed by the obscure location and the arrival of their kind. Keep the address to yourself, let the rabble fund it themselves. Wow, this crappy performance art is really making me feel no so terrible about my various emotional issues.

  Colson Whitehead

  Art, Hipster, Emotional

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• What does the perfect elevator look like, the one that will deliver us from the cities we suffer now, these stunted shacks? We don't know because we can't see inside it, it's something we cannot imagine, like the shape of angels' teeth. It's a black box.

  Colson Whitehead

  Angel, Cities, Perfect

  Colson Whitehead (2012). “The Intuitionist: A Novel”, p.61, Anchor

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• In terms of the economics, yes obviously the rise of e-books and how people choose to read books has a big effect on the economics of the game. But whether people are buying them on paper or downloading them there's still some poor wretch in a room who is trying to write a poem, write a story, write a novel. And so my job doesn't change. It's just how people receive it and economic conditions on the ground change, but that doesn't affect what I write.

  Colson Whitehead

  Empleo, Libro, Escritura

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch closer to the truth. Bit by bit we crept along. As if that thing we believed to be approaching actually existed.

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  Couple, Years, African American

  Colson Whitehead (2007). “Apex Hides the Hurt”, p.192, Anchor

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• I'm not really up on what's new. I'm still listening to Run DMC twenty-five years later. In the same way that the baby-boomers in America were forcing '60s music and Motown down our throats, now people of my generation are forcing Tears For Fears and old Hip Hop upon others.

  Colson Whitehead

  Running, People, Hip Hop

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm trying to keep it fresh for me. I'm just trying to not bore myself. And if I can do a detective novel, and if I can do a horror novel, then why do it again? To keep the work challenging I have to keep moving.

  Colson Whitehead

  Moving, Challenges, Trying

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• A lot of people, when they first hear about the Underground Railroad, think it really is a subway or a locomotive. When they find out it's not, they feel a little disappointed. So I thought, What if it was a literal underground train network traveling from state to state, with each state it goes through representing a different opportunity or danger?

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  Oportunidad, Pensamiento, Personas

  Fuente: www.oprah.com

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• I think each book has its own way of accommodating my concerns, whether it's about race, America, technology, the city.

  Colson Whitehead

  Book, Technology, Thinking

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I didn't have to do that much research to present a post-apocalyptic New York because I basically grew up in that New York. That old New York is gone, and that's one thing that's undiscoverable now but I explore in my fiction.

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  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• Twenty years ago, when I started writing, I didn't define myself as an African-American writer. And then you write books and you're focused on what's inside your books, and that kind of term is generally used on the outside, by the critical establishment.

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  Libro, Escritura, Amable

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess it up.

  Colson Whitehead

  Slavery, Mess

  Fuente: www.oprah.com

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• Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.

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  Book, Writing, Careers

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• Isn't it great when you're a kid and the world is full of anonymous things? Everything is bright and mysterious until you know what it is called and then all the light goes out of it...Once we knew the name of it, how could we ever come to love it?...For things had true natures, and they hid behind false names, beneath the skin we gave them.

  Colson Whitehead

  Kids, Light, Names

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• Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.

  Colson Whitehead

  Growing Up, Book, Writing

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