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Colson Whitehead Quotes

Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be. It meant you could come back from picking cotton in a field to find that your children are gone, your husband's gone, your mother's gone.

Colson Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1969

Topics

Family Mother God Children Together

While I'm working on something, every single part of me is in it. But then, once it's done, I leave that place behind. I usually don't like to revisit it. So it's almost like listening to a different person.

Me Listening Place Person Done

There is a self interest in voting for a society where there is health care for all, where there's a mental health service for all, where there is education service for all.

Education Health Service Society

I think it's critical that you feel you're working for a person who is committed to advancing your career.

Think Feel You Career Person Your

Were you a merchant, would you settle yourself in a rich or poor neighborhood? You would not be so blind as to locate yourself among persons who would not be able to purchase your goods. So with nations with whom we trade.

Yourself Rich Blind You Settle Poor

I have certain rules that I've established for myself that took a while post-day job to figure out. Everyone says people who freelance or are writers struggle with the structure of it. I'm not allowed to check email before a certain hour. I'm not allowed to run errands during the day. I have to write a certain amount every day.

Myself Day Struggle Job People Run

When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: 'Don't you feel pressure on you?' I said: 'Want to know something? I'm worried about the guy who's going to have to replace me.'

Future Me Pressure Feel You Know

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.

People Famous You Nice Being Famous

Now, I'm ahead of my father. He got other prizes... But he did not get a Nobel Prize.

Father Now Ahead Got Prize Get

My favorite aspect of being an author has always been visiting different communities and meeting my readers face to face.

Face Meeting Always Different Been

It's important to remember that Britain was the first country to industrialize, so I think there's a strong argument to say this is where my profession was founded.

Strong Think Remember Country Say

Funny is funny.

Oh, I'm terrible at travel.

Travel Terrible Oh

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