Colson Whitehead Quotes

Having a wife and kids drove home the brutal reality of the slave system for me - the price it exacted on families. On the other hand, whenever I despair over our history, I am brought back to hope, the hope that things will get better, for my children.

Colson Whitehead

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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

Tea Obreht
- People
- Life
- Writing
I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.

Yuji Horii
- Why
- Wonder
- Battle
Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.

Ramez Naam
- Good
- Hunting
- Fish
I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

Mads Mikkelsen
- School
- High
- Small
Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

Carine Roitfeld
- Good
- America
- Think
It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.

Walt Mossberg
- World
- Money
- Attention