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Colson Whitehead Quotes

I was allowed to write about race using an elevator metaphor because of Toni Morrison and David Bradley and Ralph Ellison. Hopefully, me being weird allows someone who's 16 and wanting to write inspires them to have their own weird take on the world, and they can see the different kinds of African American voices being published.

Colson Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1969

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Me World Weird American Someone See

All across this world, especially within the African diaspora, we feel like there is a constant devaluing of our culture and our livelihood.

Culture World Feel Within Like Our

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.

Father Parents Week Year Look Back

For me, fiction isn't very cathartic. It can be a broad, long catharsis, but it's a whole different thing - whereas music is physical. Essentially, it goes in through your ear. Fiction is cerebral, necessarily. It can do emotional stuff. But they don't really compare - not for me.

Music Me Long Emotional Fiction

Sometimes I feel like I don't dream big enough.

Feel Enough Dream Sometimes Big

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

Perfection Chance Intention Single

On 'Redneck Island,' a show I love, there was a lot of drama and storylines going on because someone's always voted off the island through process of elimination.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Love Process Someone Drama Redneck

Having done what I've done at 24 years old, I'm not the kind of person who likes to be out of work.

Work Person Done Kind Old Out

Some people you work on a film with, and then they disappear.

Work People You Some People Film

I really don't have a method. I gravitate towards the organic/acoustic, but I still often complete songs musically before attempting to find the lyric.

Find Musically Complete Still Songs

It's very hard to persuade a young person who has seen the Great Recession, who has seen all the problems with inequality, to tell them inequality is not important and that markets are always efficient. They'd think you're crazy.

Joseph Stiglitz

Great Crazy Problems Think You Hard

I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and woodwinds - but only well enough to teach them. If you put a violin in front of me, you wouldn't say, 'My God, that guy can play.' It'd probably sound more like Jack Benny.

Music God College Me Enough You

For the three years I was in school training to be an actor, I was told, 'It's very unlikely you'll work at all on the stage or in film', so I feel I have to take all the opportunities I can.

Work Training School Opportunities

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