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Colson Whitehead Quotes

I write at home. I like to be able to take a nap, watch TV, make a sandwich, and if I wake up and don't feel like working, I'm not going to bang my head on my desk all day: I'll go out and do something else.

Colson Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1969

Topics

Home Day Wake Up Feel Go Nap

I have a weird propensity to know what's going to happen in the future.

John Cameron Mitchell

Future Weird Know Happen Going

Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.

Andrew von Eschenbach

Fear Future Hope Purpose Free Turn

Owners of valuable works of art don't give to institutions that don't provide good air conditioning and have good shows.

Stanley Marcus

Good Art Air Give Air Conditioning

Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring.

Spike Jonze

Time Fire Intimacy Arcade Same

As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

Rosa Parks

Life People Color Remember Skin Way

I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity.

Rose Byrne

Character Myself Celebrity More See

As I explain at some length in my book 'Energy Victory,' during World War II, the American strength in oil production was a decisive advantage for the Allies. Airplanes, ships, and tanks all ran on oil, and we controlled the supply.

Robert Zubrin

Strength War World Victory Energy

I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily.

Ronnie Corbett

People Think Feel Die Nice Want

The fashion industry is often charged with having kept its blinders on as one Seventh Avenue company after another lost employees to AIDS. Consumers, it was feared, would shun the racks of designers whose names were associated with the disease. And to stand up against AIDS would, in many minds, confirm the business's stereotypical image.

Michael Shnayerson

Business Fashion Stand Up Stand Lost

Within the Christian tradition, fundamentalism arose in the 19th century as an effort to push back against modern' readings of the Bible that suggested everything in the text wasn't true in some literal sense.

Jay Parini

Effort Bible Push Christian Back

To be honest, the thing is I don't really like clothes. I mean, it is cool, but I like tech. I am a tech girl. A secret nerd - there, I said it.

Coco Rocha

Girl I Am Cool Clothes Said Mean

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.

Philip Zimbardo

Night Black Poor Prejudice Worst Up