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Colson Whitehead Quotes

You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.

Colson Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1969

Topics

Change People You Buildings Down

My father was in the service. His job was to integrate the Armed Forces overseas. So that meant we showed up at military bases in Okinawa or Germany, racially unannounced. That made me, in that particular society if you will, the outsider.

Father Service Job Me Society You

I love seeing people smiling, dancing. There's enough sadness in the world, man.

Love Man People World Sadness

If I book a table at a pub, or I've got an appointment at an optician's or something, I'll walk in and I'll say, 'This is Tom Jones here,' And they'll go 'Awww, I thought it was gonna be him.' They think it's gonna be the real guy. I've been ridiculed a lot throughout my life for it.

Tom Weston-Jones

Life Walk Book Think Thought Table

Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.

Art Why Always Abstract Artists

I used to do a lot of ouija boards, and I asked if there was life after death. Some spirit replied, 'He who seeketh knowledge seeketh sorrow!'

Life Knowledge Death Spirit Sorrow

There used to be a lot of acts, which was good, because people don't want to see the same act every night. But, you don't want too many acts, you don't want to over-saturate it.

Good People Night You Want See

Millions of women in malaria-endemic areas in Africa become pregnant every year. Malaria is a threat to these women and their babies, with up to 200,000 newborn deaths each year as a result of malaria.

Women Year Result Africa Become Up

My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.

Christopher Buckley

Conservative Libertarian Instincts

Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology.

Technology Today People Looking Gone

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

Winston Churchill

Good Today Power Important Accept

Every time you recall a memory, you're basically making another copy of it and, at that same point, it is susceptible to new changes and adaptations.

Time Memory You Copy New Changes

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Grow Same Weeds Regulations Rate

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