I think each book has its own way of accommodating my concerns, whether it's about race, America, technology, the city.
Colson WhiteheadThe thing I love about New York is getting lost but not worrying, just wandering and wandering, knowing that there's always a subway only ten blocks away in any direction. There's always a new neighborhood to discover, a new place to lose your bearings in, and yet however alien it seems you can escape. You can always get a cab. All of life's problems can be solved by hailing a cab.
Colson WhiteheadThe fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.
Colson WhiteheadGoogle "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?
Colson WhiteheadBest to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen until they are no longer cracks but the new places for things. That was where they were now. The world wasn't ending: it had ended and now they were in the new place. They could not recognize it because they had never seen it before.
Colson Whitehead