Colson Whitehead Quotes

• Es el fracaso lo que guía la evolución; la perfección no proporciona ningún incentivo para mejorar, y nada es perfecto.

  Colson Whitehead

  Failure, Perfect, Incentives

  Colson Whitehead (2012). “The Intuitionist: A Novel”, p.38, Anchor

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• A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.

  Colson Whitehead

  Monsters, Pretending, Persons

  "A Psychotronic Childhood" by Colson Whitehead, www.newyorker.com. June 4, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Real, Moving, Gun

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• Most people say, "Show, don't tell," but I stand by Show and Tell, because when writers put their work out into the world, they're like kids bringing their broken unicorns and chewed-up teddy bears into class in the sad hope that someone else will love them as much as they do.

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  Writing, Kids, Class

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• You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

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  Real, New Yorkers

  Colson Whitehead (2007). “The Colossus of New York”, p.4, Anchor

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• What isn't said is as important as what is said.

  Colson Whitehead

  Importante, dijo

  "How to Write" by Colson Whitehead, www.nytimes.com. July 26, 2012.

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• Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.

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  Memories, Details, Awful

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• Don’t go searching for a subject, let your subject find you. You can’t rush inspiration. … Once your subject finds you, it’s like falling in love. It will be your constant companion. Shadowing you, peeping in your windows, calling you at all hours to leave messages like, Only you understand me.

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  Falling In Love, Inspiration, Messages

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• A society manufactures the heroes it requires.

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  Héroe

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

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  People, Monsters

  Colson Whitehead (2011). “Zone One”, p.214, Random House

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• 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 because the words "All Men" exclude a vast number of citizens.

  Colson Whitehead

  Men, Independence, Purpose

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• 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 they are no longer cracks but the new places for things. That was where they were now. The world wasn't ending: it had ended and now they were in the new place. They could not recognize it because they had never seen it before.

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  Glasses, Dust, Broken

  Colson Whitehead (2011). “Zone One”, p.257, Random House

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• 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.

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  Running, Men, Redemption

  Colson Whitehead (2012). “The Intuitionist: A Novel”, p.240, Anchor

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• Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.

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  Self, Meals, Blanket

  Colson Whitehead (2014). “The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death”, p.69, Anchor

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• The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.

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  Cities, Persons, Knows

  Colson Whitehead (2007). “The Colossus of New York”, p.8, Anchor

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• In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.

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  Payback, Fiction, Wronged

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• Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be. It meant you could come back from picking cotton in a field to find that your children are gone, your husband's gone, your mother's gone. It meant knowing you are property that could be sold to the highest bidder, of value only to continue to support the plantation economy.

  Colson Whitehead

  Children, Support, Together

  Fuente: www.oprah.com

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• 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 away in any direction. There's always a new neighborhood to discover, a new place to lose your bearings in, and yet however alien it seems you can escape. You can always get a cab. All of life's problems can be solved by hailing a cab.

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  Block, Worry, Aliens

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• These days I find myself wanting to avoid being pigeon-holed, ghettoized, held in a different category than other authors. And when people ask me if I'm a black writer, or just a writer who happens to be black, I tend to say that it's either a dumb question or a question which happens to be dumb.

  Colson Whitehead

  People, Dumb, Black

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

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  Careers, Ideas, People

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

  Colson Whitehead

  Pain, Sadness, Drug

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• En consonancia con el afecto de mi familia por las líneas de productos condenadas al fracaso y los formatos embrujados, compramos un Betamax. El año anterior, habíamos comprado un TRS-80 en lugar de un Apple II, y a su debido tiempo sacaríamos de la caja la Intellivision de Mattel, en lugar del legendario artilugio de Atari. Fue un buen entrenamiento para un escritor, porque cuanto antes aceptes que eres un idiota iluso que siempre está fuera de la realidad, mejor te irá.

  Colson Whitehead

  Reality, Apples, Years

  "A Psychotronic Childhood" by Colson Whitehead, www.newyorker.com. June 4, 2012.

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• I think the world's big enough for all kinds of zombies. You can have yours and I can have mine. I think by going with slow zombies I maybe have been asserting my own kind of zombie snobbery, but I don't begrudge the youngsters their tackling, running, jumping zombies.

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  Running, Thinking, Zombie

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

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  Slavery, Not Sure

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

  Colson Whitehead

  Hilarious, Mean, Google

  "I Write in Brooklyn. Get Over It." by Colson Whitehead, www.nytimes.com. March 2, 2008.

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