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Colson Whitehead
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Zone One
Where the goblin world and its assaults were banished and there was nothing but possibility
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Colson Whitehead
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The Nickel Boys
He who gets behind in a race must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.
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Colson Whitehead
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The Underground Railroad
Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood. With the surgeries that Dr. Stevens described, Cora
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Colson Whitehead
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Zone One
As before, home was a beloved barricade. When school, work, the many-headed beast of strangers and villains comprising the world threatened to destroy, home remained, family remained, and the locks would hold, the lullabies would ward off all bogeymen. He was trapped in this house and he couldn't think of where else he'd rather be."
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Colson Whitehead
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The Underground Railroad
world. They didn't need people to say what they meant. The tables and facts couldn't be shaped into what they were not. The
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Colson Whitehead
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The Underground Railroad
Cora adored the old almanacs for containing the entire world.
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Colson Whitehead
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The Underground Railroad
America was a ghost in the darkness,
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Colson Whitehead
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The Nickel Boys
Hey, man! Hey, hold up a minute!" Like many New Yorkers, he had a crackhead alert system and turned, steeling himself.
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Colson Whitehead
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The Underground Railroad
When trafficking in cadavers, it helped to be immune to sentimentality.
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Colson Whitehead
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The Underground Railroad
... all the smart men talking about Manifest Destiny. Like it's a new idea. ... It means taking what is yours, your property, whatever you decide it to be. And everyone else taking their assigned places to allow you to to take it. Whether it's red men or Africans, giving up themselves, giving of themselves, so that we can have what is rightfully ours. The French seeing aside their territorial claims. The British and the Spanish slinking away. ... the American spirit, ... to conquer and build and civilize. And destroy that what needs to be destroyed. To lift up the lesser races. If not lift up, subjugate. And if not subjugate, exterminate. Our destiny by divine prescription -- the American imperative.""I need to visit the outhouse," ...
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Colson Whitehead
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The Colossus of New York
Keep on the path and you will not see the ruined people, so do not stray from the path.
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The Colossus of New York
Sometimes a workweek will grind you into sand, pulverize you into particles.
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