412 Quotes by Colson Whitehead

By his sights, the real movie started after the first one ended, in the impossible return to things before

I was a skinny guy, but I was morbidly obese with doom.

Most people say, “Show, don’t tell,” but I stand by Show and Tell, because when writers put their work out into the world, they’re like kids bringing their broken unicorns and chewed-up teddy bears into class in the sad hope that someone else will love them as much as they do.

Racial prejudice rotted one's faculties, he said.

Weeks passed, but my Word-A-Day Calendar was stuck on "motherfucker.

Crossing a single street transformed the way people talked, determined the size and condition of the homes, the dimension and character of the dreams.

They were the paper of record, which meant they were in the business of protecting the system,

At intersections and crowded areas between sedans and trucks the gutter reflected the bitter pastels of metropolitan neon, rainbows hacked down to earth and dirt.

Everything in the garden is dying, that’s what time of year it is. The leaves blaze and desiccate in their dying before twisting to the ground as ash.