412 Quotes by Colson Whitehead

I like to explore different ideas of race, how the concept of race has evolved in the country. It's one thing I enjoy talking about, but I don't feel compelled to talk about it.

Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third.

I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

In college, I wrote maybe three short stories.

'Zone One' comes out of me trying to work through some of my ideas about why, for me personally, zombies are scary.

There's not a lot of good TV.

If you write about race in 1850, you end up talking about race today because in many ways, so little has changed.

In America, when you hear about the Underground Railroad, it's so evocative. You think it's a literal subway for a few minutes before your teacher goes on and describes where it actually was.

Anytime an African-American writes an unconventional novel, the writer gets compared to Ellison. But that's O.K. I am working in the African-American literary tradition. That's my aim and what I see as my mission.