Colson Whitehead Quotes

I do write about race a lot, but I don't think writers - of any shade or background or whatever - have to write about certain subjects.

Colson Whitehead

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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

Rafael Moneo
- Always
- Better
- Buildings
The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.

Florence Kelley
- Women
- Country
- Now
Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.

Madonna Breakfast Club
- Work
- Doing
- Saying
I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.

Salman Rushdie
- Good
- Heart
- Community
There are no friends at cards or world politics.

Finley Peter Dunne
- World
- Friends
- Politics
The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.

Samuel Adams
- Life
- Marriage
- Happiness