Quote by Colson Whitehead Download Open image ““Cora had become too accustomed to escaping unscathed from encounters with white authority.”” — Colson Whitehead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Now that she had run away and seen a bit of the country, Cora wasn't sure the document described anything real at all. America… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The whites were right to be afraid. One day the system would collapse in blood. An insurrection of one. She smiled for a moment,… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Survival instincts screamed at her to run. White agony dropped her in place.” — Dale Mayer Copy Share Image
“I saw it for what it was—a hasty retreat. She was afraid. She and her kingdom had been dominated for so long by a… — Melinda Hyde Copy Share Image
“And she liked it. The power over this man. The ability to choose who survived. To take lives and twist them as she pleased.… — Michael Walterich Copy Share Image
“she ran, but she wanted to be caught. She hid, but she wanted to be found. She refused me, but she was always going… — Callie Hart Copy Share Image
“Piper didn’t dare look—not while she was running with a dagger in her hand. She could just see herself tripping and stabbing herself in… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“She had always thought that she wanted someone to love her beyond all reason. Someone who would slay a regiment of knights to save… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
“She was fierce in the presence of death, heroic even, as she was at no other time. Its threat gave her direction, clarity, audacity.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Maybe she had some sort of extraordinary quality, secret even to her. Maybe she did have the power to alter the things she'd always… — Anna North Copy Share Image
“She was a danger to his hard-earned neutrality. Thinking about her tended to give him an unwanted hitch in his lungs.” — Marissa Meyer 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“The Great War had always been between the white and the black. It always would be. Cora” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There's always an attack on the sophomore novel from some quarters. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image