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Colson Whitehead Quotes

There's always an attack on the sophomore novel from some quarters.

Colson Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1969

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Always Attack Some Novel Quarters

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

Difficult Head Anything Modern Get

There are a lot of people getting killed by guns in our country for reasons, from my understanding, that are preventable. So many guns that are left loaded, unlocked. So you can educate. That doesn't seem to be too controversial - education.

Education People Understanding You

Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.

Michael Eric Dyson

Wisdom People Better American Learn

If I spend a Saturday being lazy and curled up on the couch with my dogs, I'll just make sure to get out and be active on Sunday.

Saturday Sunday Lazy Dogs Active Up

I've been given benefits from the day I was born. A loving family. A great education. So I see it as an obligation, as a Christian and as a human being, to help.

Family Education Great Day Help See

You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.

Myself Best Arrogance Golf You Know

There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.

Power I Am Proud Vulnerability Much

I'm a great napper. I nap in a lot of places.

Bozoma Saint John

Great Places Nap Lot

I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.

Family Good History Long Cooks

Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.

Work Anger Frustration You Anything

We scientists have an obsession with unification, a grand synthesis. And dark matter is an irritating missing piece.

Priyamvada Natarajan

Dark Matter Obsession Missing Grand

I am happy being what I am.

I Am Happy I Am Happy Being Am

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