Quotes from Colson Whitehead

We may not know the way through the forest, but we can pick each other up when we fall, and we will arrive together." —

A??r iÅŸe dayanmak ve bizi daha da yükseltmek için güçlü olmam?z gerekiyor. Domuzlar? ÅŸiÅŸmanlat?yorsak bunu hayatta kalmak için domuzlara ihtiyac?m?z olduÄŸundan yap?yoruz, hoÅŸumuza gittiÄŸinden deÄŸil. Ama sizin fazla ak?llanman?za izin veremeyiz. Bizden h?zl? koÅŸacak kadar zinde olman?za izin veremeyiz.

Bitince yenisine ba?lars?n,' dedi. 'Ama bu daha bitmedi.

Know your value and you know your place in the order. To escape the boundary of the plantation was to escape the fundamental principles of your existence: impossible.

Women and animals, you only have to break them in once, he said. They stay broke. All

White men squabbled before judges over claims to this or that tract hundreds of miles away that had been carved up on a map. Slaves fought with equal fervor over their tiny parcels at their feet.

But it was one thing to allow someone to kill for you and another to let him live next door.

Lumbly'nin sözleri yeniden akl?na geldi: 'Bu ülkenin nas?l bir yer olduÄŸunu öÄŸrenmek istiyorsan?z demiryolunu kullan?n derim ben hep. H?zla giderken d??ar? bakarsan?z, Amerika'n?n gerçek yüzünü görürsünüz.' Åžaka yapm??t? adam, demek ki. Yolculuklar? s?ras?nda pencereden bak?nca yaln?zca karanl??? görmüÅŸtü Cora, hep de öyle olacakt?.

They were treated to the same Randall hospitality, the travesties so routine and familiar that they were a kind of weather, and the ones so imaginative in their monstrousness that the mind refused to accommodate them.

The world may be mean, but people don't have to be, not if they refuse. Mabel

The word we. We are not one people but many different people. How can one person speak for this great, beautiful race – which is not one race but many, with a million desires and hopes and wishes for ourselves and our children? "For

Irkla ilgili önyarg?lar insan?n beynini çürütüyor.

the patrollers were the law: white, crooked, and merciless. Drawn from the lowest and most vicious segment, too witless to even become overseers.

Her mind was wily though, twisty. Thoughts she did not like wormed in from the sides, from beneath, through the cracks, from places she had battened down.

Belki kendi kalbi bile onun kötülüÄŸünden b?km??t?r...

The patroller required no reason to stop a person apart from color.

Cora thought he had a mean face, like a burl sprouting from a squat, sweaty trunk.

By making a circle of themselves that separated the human spirits within from the degradation without.

Then it comes, always—the overseer's cry, the call to work, the shadow of the master, the reminder that she is only a human being for a tiny moment across the eternity of her servitude.

They strung up the guilty and, in the interest of prevention, a robust percentage of the innocent.

Hard weeks, the kind where you realize you've engineered it so that nobody has anything on you, and that means nobody has anything for you: help, a kind word.

Puedes cambiar la ley, pero no puedes cambiar a la gente ni la manera en la que se tratan unos a otros

Who are you after you finish something this magnificent—in constructing it you have also journeyed through it, to the other side.

never had an inevitability been so politely proposed