Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.
A society manufactures the heroes it requires. - Colson Whitehead
A society manufactures the heroes it requires.
- Colson Whitehead
The Declaration of Independence is that sacred American text so full of meaning and purpose and yet quite empty if you examine it and pull it apart b… - Colson Whitehead
The Declaration of Independence is that sacred American text so full of meaning and purpose and yet quite empty if you examine it and pull it apart b…
The thing I love about New York is getting lost but not worrying, just wandering and wandering, knowing that there's always a subway only ten blocks … - Colson Whitehead
The thing I love about New York is getting lost but not worrying, just wandering and wandering, knowing that there's always a subway only ten blocks …
Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail. - Colson Whitehead
Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen until the… - Colson Whitehead
Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen until the…
We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them. - Colson Whitehead
We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.
What isn't said is as important as what is said. - Colson Whitehead
What isn't said is as important as what is said.
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 imp… - Colson Whitehead
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 imp…
You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now. - Colson Whitehead
You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.
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