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Quotes About Change

Puedes cambiar la ley, pero no puedes cambiar a la gente ni la manera en la que se tratan unos a otros
~ Colson Whitehead
İnsanlar doÄŸduklar? zaman iyidir ama dünya onlar? kötüleÅŸtirir. Dünya zaten hep kötüdür ve her gün daha da kötü bir yer hâline gelir.
~ Colson Whitehead
Because to walk around with that in your mind and do nothing was to die.
~ Colson Whitehead
Crossing a single street transformed the way people talked, determined the size and condition of the homes, the dimension and character of the dreams. In
~ Colson Whitehead
Also, Archimedes, one of his first encyclopedia finds. Violence is the only lever big enough to move the world.
~ Colson Whitehead
When he heard autumn leaves skuttling in the wind, he remembered that chuckle.
~ Colson Whitehead
Truth was a changing display in a shop window, manipulated by hands when you weren't looking, alluring and ever out of reach. The
~ Colson Whitehead
Tonight the song you always despised strides from the jukebox full-bodied and you hear the lyrics for the first time, understand the lyrics for the first time after all these years. This new you with an older soul. Now it's your favorite. All this time singing the wrong words.
~ Colson Whitehead
You can change the law but you can't change people and how they treat each other. Nickel was
~ Colson Whitehead
I'm all for your people. You might not think so, but I am. I'm all for colored progress, but gradual. You can't do everything overnight--that would be chaos.
~ Colson Whitehead
It's one thing to understand the muck of things, accept it, live in it, and quite another to have that muck change so suddenly and dramatically, to stumble down to a newer, deeper shelf.
~ Colson Whitehead
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.
~ Colson Whitehead
It was where we mingled with who we had been and who we would be. Sharing space with our echoes out in the sun.
~ Colson Whitehead
Twenty years is a while. They were both older, fatter, and sadder--which is the general trajectory--and that was a nice couple of days.
~ Colson Whitehead
The streets were shrinking, and she felt about the places they led to the same way she felt about her hair when she saw it on the bathroom floor after her mother cut it off.
~ Colson Whitehead
From then on whenever he heard the song he thought of the death of Munson. They always said that when the old city disappeared and something new took its place.
~ Colson Whitehead
The Theresa desegregated in 1940, after the neighborhood tipped over from Jews and Italians and became the domain of Southern blacks and West Indians. Everyone who came uptown had crossed some variety of violent ocean.
~ Colson Whitehead
That was a temporary setback," Zippo said. "If you call an opportunity to take stock and really think about how you can make your life better a 'setback.
~ Colson Whitehead
Why not remove his desk, bring in a treadmill, hang a carrot from the ceiling and stop all pretense already.
~ Colson Whitehead
By his sights, the real movie started after the first one ended, in the impossible return to things before
~ Colson Whitehead
Understanding that something is always lost when it comes to human beings.
~ Colson Whitehead
Hard to believe that reconstruction had progressed so far that clock-watching had returned, the slacker's code, the concept of weekend.
~ Colson Whitehead
It was the last time he raised his hand. 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.
~ Colson Whitehead
But in general the people who I think would be moved by art, moved to change legislation, don't read novels, don't read poems, and don't really care that someone's written a book about a place like Dozier.
~ Colson Whitehead