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Colson Whitehead Quotes

Most of my books have always worked through juxtaposition, jumping through different point of views and time.

Colson Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1969

Topics

Time Always Through Point Jumping

The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person's ideas and tries to claim them as his own.

Hate Ideas Person Nothing More Own

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

Work Environmental Plants Sexy Mean

I once read that there are more biographical works about Napoleon Bonaparte than any other man in history.

History Man More Read Than Once

When doing comedy, I do what makes me laugh. The first person I learned from said I should talk about things I am passionate about - that I love or hate - because the audience likes to see passion. The stuff I rant and rave about stems from a place that really pisses me off.

Lisa Lampanelli

Love Passion Hate I Am Me Laugh

When I was running for speaker, people would go out of their way to point out why I wasn't going to win: 'You're a woman, you're too liberal, you're gay, you're from the West Side of Manhattan,' which in that context was an insult.

Christine Quinn

Woman People Win You Gay Go

Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.

School College Singing Grammar Like

I do believe that organizations can certainly improve lives by specifying better fonts, which of course has an effect on how you read your e-mail.

Believe Better You Improve Your How

Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.

Support People Charity Long Meeting

You write differently in each book. It may appear to be similar to readers, but you're a different writer in each book because you haven't approached that subject before. And every subject brings out a different prose strain in you. Fundamentally, yes, you're contained as one writer. But you have various voices. Like a good actor.

Good Book You Actor Write Out

I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.

Life Positive Stand My Life Way

In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

Business America Done True Way Task

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Hope Politics Happy People Vain

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