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Colson Whitehead Quotes

I always try to mix it up with each book - changing tone, changing style keeps the work very vital for me.

Colson Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1969

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Work Style Me Book Try Always

I was raised with the notion that there is no greater honor than to find a way to serve your country.

Honor Find Country Way Serve Your

I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.

Character Looking Done Always Out

I'm a bit of a clothes hoarder, admittedly.

Jennifer Aniston

Clothes Bit Admittedly

There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.

Creative People You Artist Box Just

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

Imagination I Am Cake Real Putting

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

Self-Confidence Bear Knew Any Anyone

I was raised by both parents up to 17. We had a good family. We had a middle class family, good teaching and good surroundings, raised by the church, where I went every week whether I wanted to or not.

Family Good Parents Church Week Up

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

Language Generation Out Many Ways

Poland is not a very large country, but it's also not a small country.

Small Country Poland Large Very

You look at a surgeon as you would a secular priest, almost, if it's your child, if it's your sister on the operating table. That was an idea that very much has interested me and I've wanted to explore for some time.

Time Child Me Sister You Look

Historically, black women have suffered tremendously, but today's black women are the triumph. We have choices, and that's what freedom is all about: having the power to choose.

Susan L. Taylor

Women Today Freedom Power Choices

I thought, 'A biennial needs artists. I'm going to do an international biennial; I need artists from all around the world.' So what I did was I invented a hundred artists from around the world. I figured out their bios, their passions in life and their art styles, and I started making their work.

Life Work Art World Thought Need

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