People Quotes by Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead

A lot of people, when they first hear about the Underground Railroad, think it really is a subway or a locomotive. When they find out it’s not, they feel a little disappointed. So I thought, What if it was a literal underground train network traveling from state to state, with each state it goes through representing a different opportunity or danger?

Opportunity

People

Thinking

Colson Whitehead

I want to keep growing as a writer. I find myself doing unexpected projects and sort of challenging my idea of where I am in my career, or what I’m supposed to be doing. In fact, I’m not supposed to be doing anything. Just finding projects that are challenging to me. I want to be a writer who keeps growing and figuring out new things and hopefully people will follow me along as I publish these things.

Careers

Ideas

People

Colson Whitehead

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

Monsters

People

Colson Whitehead

When I was a kid, I’d go to the African-American section in the bookstore, and I’d try and find African-American people I hadn’t read before. So in that sense the category was useful to me. But it’s not useful to me as I write. I don’t sit down to write an African-American zombie story or an African-American story about elevators. I’m writing a story about elevators which happens to talk about race in different ways. Or I’m writing a zombie novel which doesn’t have that much to do with being black in America. That novel is really about survival.

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People

Writing

Colson Whitehead

When it comes to how the slaves treat each other: If you’ve been brutalized all your life – if you have seen your children sold or your mother beaten and raped and you have been tortured yourself – you are not going to be up for your best behaviour. Even in the 21st century, 100 people in the midst of terrible suffering are not going to be their best people.

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

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