412 Quotes by Colson Whitehead

Sometimes a workweek will grind you into sand, pulverize you into particles.

Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later.

Life! What Inscrutable Card Shall Ye Throw Next Upon the Soft Felt of Our Days?

People get rid of plenty when they move--sometimes they're changing not just places but personalities.

At a certain point he learned the smarter play was to avoid the things that brought you low.

Resentment was the hinge of her personality.

In our modern age, cell phone technology permits us to record the constant brutality that occurs all around us; we experience not an uptick in violence but a new kind of witnessing.

As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless.

There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be as near to hell as they can.