Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch closer to the truth. Bit by bit we crept along. As if that thing we believed to be approaching actually existed.
Colson WhiteheadNew York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.
Colson WhiteheadI can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children.
Colson WhiteheadThe city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.
Colson Whitehead