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Generally, I walk around in a glum mood.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: Around Generally Mood Walk

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In fifth grade, we did 10 minutes on slavery and 40 minutes on Abraham Lincoln, and in 10th grade you might do 10 minutes on the civil rights era and 40 minutes on Martin Luther King, and that's it.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: Abraham Abraham Lincoln Civil Civil Rights Did Era Fifth Grade King Lincoln Luther Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Might Minutes Rights Slavery You

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I'm not a representative of blackness, and I'm not a healer.

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Topics: Blackness Healer Representative

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'Zone One' has one kind of an apocalypse, and 'The Underground Railroad' another. In both cases, the narrators are animated by a hope in a better place of refuge - in the last surviving human outpost, Up North. Does it exist? They can only believe.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: Animated Another Apocalypse Believe Better Better Place Both Cases Does Exist Hope Human Kind Last North Only Place Railroad Refuge Surviving Underground Up Zone

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I've always thought the Nat Turner story to be very interesting.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: Always Interesting Story Thought Turner Very

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If you want to understand America, it's slavery.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: America Slavery Understand Want You

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I was allowed to write about race using an elevator metaphor because of Toni Morrison and David Bradley and Ralph Ellison. Hopefully, me being weird allows someone who's 16 and wanting to write inspires them to have their own weird take on the world, and they can see the different kinds of African American voices being published.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: About African African American Allowed American Because Being David Different Different Kinds Elevator Hopefully Inspires Kinds Me Metaphor Own Published Race Ralph See Someone Take Them Using Voices Wanting Weird World Write

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If you go to a big publishing house, editorial aside, it's completely white.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: Aside Big Editorial Go House Publishing White You

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I try to keep each different book different from the last. So 'Sag Harbor' is very different from 'Apex Hides the Hurt;' 'The Intuitionist,' which is kind of a detective novel, is very different from 'John Henry Days.' I'm just trying to keep things rich for me creatively and for the readers who follow me.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: Book Creatively Days Detective Different Each Follow Harbor Henry Hides Hurt John Just Keep Kind Last Me Novel Readers Rich Things Try Trying Very Which Who

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In '82 and '83, that was the rise of the VCR. Every Friday, my brother and I would go to Crazy Eddie's - which was a video store in Manhattan - and rent five horror movies. And that's basically what we did, basically, for three years. Becoming social misfits.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: Basically Becoming Brother Crazy Did Eddie Every Five Friday Go Horror Horror Movies Manhattan Misfits Movies Rent Rise Social Store Three Video Which Would Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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