I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“A free black walks different than a slave,” he said. “White people recognize it immediately, even if they don’t know it. Walks… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I like to explore different ideas of race, how the concept of race has evolved in the country. It's one thing I… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“An elevator doesn’t exist without its freight. If there’s no one to get on, the elevator remains in quiescence. The elevator and… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
If you write about race in 1850, you end up talking about race today because in many ways, so little has changed. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Turns out if you write about police violence and atrocities, if you wait a month, it'll happen again, so... That's America.” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I enjoy thinking about how race plays out over the centuries, how technology evolves, how cities transform themselves. These subjects are present… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The negro’s story may have started in this country with degradation, but triumph and prosperity would be his one day.” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The word we. We are not one people but many different people. How can one person speak for this great, beautiful race… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch closer to… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
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… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Lieutenant Thomas R. Gilligan, thirty-seven, was off duty and out of uniform, checking out TVs in an electronics store. He went to… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I do write about race a lot, but I don't think writers - of any shade or background or whatever - have… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
I want to keep growing as a writer. I find myself doing unexpected projects and sort of challenging my idea of where I am… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
“Every Tuesday, James Fulton (and later, Orville Lever) stood in the downstairs drawing room and lectured on the intricacies of his science. Lectured on… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
“The Great War had always been between the white and the black. It always would be. Cora” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
“The worst sort of scoundrels took up the chase. Drunkards, incorrigibles, poor whites who didn’t even own shoes delighted in this opportunity to scourge… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
Don’t go searching for a subject, let your subject find you. You can’t rush inspiration. … Once your subject finds you, it’s like falling… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
“its terms? Homer watched her as she dressed, like a valet who had waited on her since the cradle. “I’m caught,” Cora said. “You… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
These days I find myself wanting to avoid being pigeon-holed, ghettoized, held in a different category than other authors. And when people ask me… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
Part of any book is establishing the rules at the end of the world. My first book, 'The Intuitionist,' takes place in an alternative… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
“All he felt now was envy. These people had expectations. Of the world, of the future, it didn't matter--expectation was such an innovative concept… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
Growing up as a product of the black civil-rights movement, I had a lot of different models for black weirdness, whether it's Richard Pryor… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
