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Colson Whitehead Quotes

born 1969 United States

Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist.

United States
Essayists
Non-fiction authors
Novelists
Short story writers

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The way he saw it, living taught you that you didn’t have to live the way you’d been taught to live. You came from one place but more important was where you decided to go.

Harlem Shuffle (2021)

My compulsion to write the story was from seeing so many people go unpunished, and so many innocents' stories being untold…

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Colson Whitehead (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.