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Colson Whitehead Quotes

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 or James Baldwin or Jimmy Walker.

Colson Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1969

Topics

Growing Up Black Growing Movement Up

When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.

Jim Woodring

Childhood World Perception Feelings

When I got engaged to be married, it was assumed that I would quit science and be a housewife. It was considered shameful if a married woman had to work - it implied that her husband couldn't earn enough to keep her.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Work Science Woman Husband Enough

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.

Johannes P. Muller

Light Action Speak Nervous Principle

I do know how life can go one way or another and that it's not all just black and white, and there are many different situations and twists and turns in life.

Mel Rodriguez

Life Black And White Black White Go

Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.

Anna Deavere Smith

Green Color Los Angeles Person Said

As a person who came from a small town and had dreams of becoming an actor, I know what it's like to have no support system for what it is that you want to do. A lot of people think you don't have a chance.

Anika Noni Rose

Dreams Support People Small Chance

I grew up in Baltimore, which is, you know, a city of extremes certainly, but my parents were very conservative. But they made me feel safe, and even though they were mortified at what I was doing, they encouraged it. I think because they thought, what else could I do?

John Waters

Parents City Me Think Thought Doing

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

Louis C. K.

People Direction Weird Comedy Gone

The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made.

Donald G. Mitchell

Heart Man Goodness Will Way Him

When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wrote more of the songs in the '90s - 'Nick of Time' and other songs I was surprised I came up with - it was because nobody else was saying what I wanted to say.

Bonnie Raitt

Love Time Song Saying You Find

We have to keep pace with changing times.

Ali Fazal

Keep Pace Changing Times

Consumption may be regarded as negative production.

Alfred Marshall

Negative Production May Consumption