Quotes About Hope

Colson Whitehead

The white boys didn't get it as bad as the black boys, but they were not in Nickel because the world cared overmuch. Big Chet was their Great White Hope.

The type of guys Pepper sought were single-room-occupancy men, hot-plate men, shitty tippers who never passed a pay phone without checking for errant dimes, and they dreamed of fire.

THE music stopped. The circle broke. Sometimes a slave will be lost in a brief eddy of liberation. In the sway of a sudden reverie among the furrows or while untangling the mysteries of an early-morning dream. In the middle of a song on a warm Sunday night. 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. The

She threw him a bone about the movement: 'Lyndon Johnson's carrying on President Kennedy's civil rights bill. And if that good old boy is doing right, you know things is changing. Be a whole different thing when you come home, Elwood.

The world continued to instruct: Do not love for they will disappear, do not trust for you will be betrayed, do not stand up for you will be swatted down. Still he heard those higher imperatives: Love and that

För det är vad man gör när man tar någons barn – stjäl deras framtid.

love will be returned, trust in the righteous path and it will lead you to deliverance, fight and things will change.

Time enough for Cora to take stock of her journey from Randall and make a thick braid of her misfortunes.

May the next traveler not tarry and keep moving up the line, all the way to liberty.

Nie chodzi tylko o to, ?eby przetrwa?, ale aby ?y?.

Sometimes a slave will be lost in a brief eddy of liberation.

that's what you do when you take away someone's babies—steal their future. Torture them as much as you can when they are on this earth, then take away the hope that one day their people will have it better.

Ormandan nas?l ç?kaca??m?z? bilemeyebiliriz ama düÅŸtüÄŸümüz zaman birbirimizi kald?rabiliriz ve varaca??m?z yere ancak birlikte varabiliriz.

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 thought, the whites had begun stealing futures in earnest. Cut you open and rip them out, dripping. Because that's what you do when you take away someone's babies--steal their future. Torture them as much as you can when they are on this earth, then take away the hope that one day their people will have it better.

The world had whispered its rules to him for his whole life and he refused to listen, hearing instead a higher order. The world continued to instruct: Do not love for they will disappear, do not trust for you will be betrayed, do not stand up for you will be swatted down. Still he heard those higher imperatives: Love and that love will be returned, trust in the righteous path and it will lead you to deliverance, fight and things will change.

The negro's story may have started in this country with degradation, but triumph and prosperity would be his one day.

In time the saplings and hedges on the perimeter would provide shade and character; now they spoke of fine intentions.

En tanke bredte sig i hende som en skygge: at denne station ikke var den første på linjen, men dens endestation. Jernbanen var ikke begyndt under huset her, men i den anden ende af det sorte hul. Som om der ikke var nogen steder i verden, man kunne flygte til, kun steder, man kunne flygte fra.

First came the stumps of the houses that had once contained the dreams of pioneers

I didn't have illusions about being one of the November Nine. We live in an age in which sitcoms outnumber miracles, and perhaps that is what we deserve.

sometimes good fortune is just having fewer messed-up things happening to you.

As it turned out, one aspect of my personality would help me in my odyssey: I was a bider. Temperamentally suited to hold out for good cards, well accustomed to waiting. We Anhedonians have adapted to long periods between good news. Our national animal is the hope camel. We have no national bird. All the birds are dead.

Hope is a gateway drug, don't do it.