Colson Whitehead Quotes

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• The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Women
  • Job
  • Pretty

• I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Greatest

• If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Time
  • Think
  • Period

• I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Job

• I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Feel
  • Story
  • Very

• God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • God
  • Power

• To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Reach

• I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • More
  • Now
  • Class

• I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Training
  • New
  • Formal

• We always trend set.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Always
  • Trend

• In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Sales

• I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Live
  • Want
  • New York

• I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.

  

  Raghav Bahl
  • Great
  • Business
  • Drive

• We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Business
  • Never
  • Wall

• I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • House
  • Like
  • Books

• It's a sin to be tired.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Tired
  • Sin

• To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Boat

• I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
  • Looking Forward

• You're part of the problem or the solution. Solution means, in my opinion, to be taking extra time and energy in trying to give back to the world.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • World
  • Trying

• One thing I think is that comics are really good at expressing emotion. I think there's a way that comics characters can be drawn not-realistically, but the emotional reality is still very sincere. So you can have these exaggerations that express inner emotion through physical appearance.

  

  Jeffrey Brown
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Emotional

• The Nobel prize is unquestionably the most famous prize in the world, and very often, the prize is an object of prestige not only for a person but also for a research center, a country, or for a particular area of interest.

  

  Klaus von Klitzing
  • World
  • Country
  • Famous

• Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better way of life, a freer way of life - a more democratic way of life. I wanted to live the American Dream where if you worked hard and put your mind to the task, anything was possible.

  

  Mel Martinez
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mind

• Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • History

• Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history.

  Colson Whitehead
  • American
  • History
  • Black