Colson Whitehead Quotes - Page 2

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

Colson Whitehead

I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children.

Colson Whitehead

see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted colored people, defined by how much worse it could be at any moment.

Colson Whitehead