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Sometimes such an experience bound one person to another; just as often the shame of one's powerlessness made all witnesses into enemies.
— Colson Whitehead
I'm here because I was born here and thus ruined for anywhere else, but I don't know about you.
— Colson Whitehead
True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It's knowing what should be tolerated, and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn't.
— Charles Colson
Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.
— Charles W. Colson
You are a soulless monster whose fright mask is incapable of capturing human expressions.
— 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.
— Colson Whitehead
And for the second time that day he blesses the certainty of airports because he can always turn around and go someplace else.
— Colson Whitehead
The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history.
— Charles Colson
IF THEY THINK those two words New York will fix them, who are we to say otherwise.
— Colson Whitehead
Today the concept of delayed gratification is seen as a denial of some inherent natural right,
— Charles W. Colson
By making a circle of themselves that separated the human spirits within from the degradation without. Noble
— Colson Whitehead
There were plenty of things in the world that deserved to stay dead, yet they walked.
— Colson Whitehead
She wondered where he escaped from, how bad it was, and how far he traveled before he put it behind him.
— Colson Whitehead
In death the negro became a human being. Only then was he the white man's equal. On
— Colson Whitehead
Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.
— Colson Whitehead
Everyone was fucked up in their own way; as before, it was a mark of one's individuality.
— Colson Whitehead
In her Georgia misery she had pictured freedom, and it had not looked like this. Freedom was a community laboring for something lovely and rare. Mingo
— Colson Whitehead
The world is mean from the start and gets meaner every day. It uses you up until you only dream of death. Mabel
— Colson Whitehead
Knowing that we are fulfilling God's purpose is the only thing that gives rest to the restless human heart.
— Charles Colson
of a runaway? Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with trees up close but from outside, from the
— Colson Whitehead
Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us.
— Colson Whitehead
A plantation was a plantation; one might think one's misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay in their universality.
— Colson Whitehead
Did you know that smiling politely burns up the same amount of calories as speaking your mind.
— Colson Whitehead
He hovered on unexceptionality.
— Colson Whitehead
Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.
— Colson Whitehead
Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.
— Colson Whitehead
The I-Remember-Whensters lumbered in with their musty catalogues of the bygone, dragging IVs of distilled nostalgia behind them on creaky wheels,
— Colson Whitehead
I was a skinny guy, but I was morbidly obese with doom.
— Colson Whitehead
What isn't said is as important as what is said.
— Colson Whitehead
In the slow motion that is the speed of humiliation.
— Colson Whitehead
It was the softest bed she had ever lain in. But then, it was the only bed she had ever lain in.
— Colson Whitehead
If you were a thing - a cart or a horse or a slave - your value determined your possibilities.
— Colson Whitehead
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.
— Colson Whitehead
Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later.
— Colson Whitehead
'Sag Harbor' was a very different book for me. It changed the way I thought about books that I wanted to do.
— Colson Whitehead
The world may be mean, but people don't have to be, not if they refuse.
— Colson Whitehead
In the dank utility room deep in the subbasements of my personality, a little man wiped his hands on his overalls and pulled the switch: More.
— Colson Whitehead
He told himself: Hope is a gateway drug, don't do it.
— Colson Whitehead
But we have all been branded even if you can't see it, inside if not without
— Colson Whitehead
Their lives had been an interminable loop of repeated gestures; now their existences were winnowed to this discrete and eternal moment.
— Colson Whitehead
The church does not draw people in; it sends them out.
— Charles Colson
They don't give gold bracelets for regrets.
— Colson Whitehead
S. Lewis, coined the phrase "The
— Charles W. Colson
Well, imagine you are alone in a room....Are you the best, most special person in the room right now? Yes. That's the gift of being alone.
— Colson Whitehead
This isn't going to un-fuck itself.
— Colson Whitehead
The future? The future was the clay in their hands.
— Colson Whitehead
Weeks passed, but my Word-A-Day Calendar was stuck on motherfucker.
— Colson Whitehead
If the polls are right, our Judeo-Christian heritage is no longer the foundation of our values. We have become a post-Christian society.
— Charles Colson
Georgina hailed from Delaware and had that vexing way of Delaware ladies, delighting in puzzles.
— Colson Whitehead
Who speaks for God? He does quite nicely for Himself. Through His holy and infallible Word - and the quiet obedience of His servants.
— Charles Colson
I have a good poker face because I am half dead inside.
— Colson Whitehead
I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.
— Charles Colson
Racial prejudice rotted one's faculties.
— Colson Whitehead
He possessed a strange facility for the mandatory.
— Colson Whitehead
New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.
— Colson Whitehead
Culture is religion incarnate.
— Charles Colson
Craftsmen and artisans created items that were brittle rumors compared with his father's iron facts.
— Colson Whitehead
Judge not the dysfunctions of others, let ye be judged.
— Colson Whitehead
There was no recourse, were no laws but the ones rewritten every day.
— Colson Whitehead
Even angels are animals.
— Colson Whitehead
The Bible's power rests upon the fact that it is the reliable, errorless, and infallible Word of God.
— Charles Colson
Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?
— Colson Whitehead
In college, [Christian students] are assaulted by secular relativism, and if we don't prepare them, they will be like lambs led to slaughter.
— Charles Colson
God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience.
— Charles Colson
She wondered why there were only two kinds of weather: hardship in the morning, and tribulation at night.
— Colson Whitehead
Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.
— Charles Colson
At ninety, everything is air and the difference between you and the medium of your passage is disintegrating with every increment of the ascension.
— Colson Whitehead
New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.
— Colson Whitehead
He was a rube, but he was no tourist.
— Colson Whitehead
I'm just trying to keep things rich for me creatively and for the readers who follow me.
— Colson Whitehead
Poetry and prayer put ideas in people's heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world.
— Colson Whitehead
Two white men in two days had their hands around her. Was this a condition of her freedom? Caesar
— Colson Whitehead
A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.
— Charles W. Colson
What we do flows from who we are.
— Charles W. Colson
Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.
— Colson Whitehead
Live every minute as if you are late for the last train.
— Colson Whitehead
There was an order of misery, misery tucked inside miseries, and you were meant to keep track.
— Colson Whitehead
You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.
— Colson Whitehead
Our character is determined not by our circumstances but by our reaction to those circumstances.
— Charles W. Colson
Rumors have flourished in worse soil than this.
— Colson Whitehead
memory has a palette and broad brush.
— Colson Whitehead
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.
— Charles Colson
The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!
— Charles Colson
Pick your fights like you pick your nose: with complete awareness of where you are.
— Colson Whitehead
Today's marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview.
— Charles Colson
Mark Spitz backed away from the fucking corn.
— Colson Whitehead
Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.
— Charles W. Colson
To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.
— Charles Colson
God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't.
— Charles Colson
You can't rush inspiration.
— Colson Whitehead
Talking about New York is a way of talking about the world.
— Colson Whitehead