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Colson Whitehead Quotes

If you want to understand America, it's slavery.

Colson Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1969

Topics

Slavery America You Want Understand

I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way.

Maurizio Cattelan

Beautiful I Am Way Something Idea

The idea that women are actually getting some jobs - whoopee. I can't say that I celebrate it without a hint of cynicism, because I think of how easily things can drop away and go back to the same old routine of being a boys' show. But I think it's a wonderful thing that women are getting to direct more.

Anjelica Huston

Women Celebrate Think Routine Back

Twentieth century man must boldly reach out... And purposefully strive to discover the hidden secrets of our universe.

Man Universe Reach Secrets Strive

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Words Quotation Act Repeating

I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

People Interesting Flattery Always

I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was.

Love Mistakes Man Feel Bad Person

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

Balance Government People Research

I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man.

Friendship Death Man Know Living He

We don't have a lot of space in our imaginations to allow people to expand what they do.

Space People Expand Allow Our Lot

The benefit of hindsight is we only really talk about those things that did work out.

Work Talk Out Things Hindsight Only

I've always been a daddy's girl, and that's served me well in life; most of my directors have been male.

Life Girl Me Always Well Been

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

Government You Country Understand

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