Fear Quote by Colson Whitehead Download Open image ““The whites were right to be afraid. One day the system would collapse in blood. An”” — Colson Whitehead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fear
“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
“White fear emanates from knowing that white privilege exists and the anxiety that it might end.” — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“Making the nation safe for white people could be more easily accomplished with the help of a whitewashed tale of its origins.” — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
“If we- and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.” — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“The fear that I heard in my father’s voice, for example, when he realized that I really believed I could do anything a white… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The whites got what they deserved. For enslaving her people, for massacring another race, for stealing the very land itself. Let them burn by… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“He was suggesting that all Negroes were held in a state of supreme tension between the difficult, dangerous relationship in which they stood to… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“At home they thought of white people as a vague but powerful entity--like the forces that control the weather, that capable of destruction, that… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“I waited for the moment when he would resume his task of blood. The position was a strange one: he had already tried to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White Children.” — David Lane Copy Share Image
“Whites were fools and one had constantly to fight in order not to underestimate their power and danger, because a powerful and dangerous fool… — Sam Greenlee 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
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“That horrible stinging sensation returned, the muscles behind my eyes straining as the first tear began to fall. “I’m scared, too. For eighteen months… — Devon Ashley Copy Share Image
“...Often that which most we fear births the resolve that spurs us on to altitudes we could not have achieved, had we continued walking… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Anything that you find yourself worrying about regularly may find you suddenly wanting unrealistic changes.” — Nagisa Tatsumi Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
“I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and so for… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
“Snip off the little worries and expressions of worry” like little branches atop a tall tree.28 If you are truly worried, sharing your concerns… — Tim Sanders Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“Yes, the issue was courage. It always had been, even as a kid. Things scared him. He couldn't help it. Noise scared him, dark… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
