I think you're only post-racial when you stop asking if you're post-racial. When the Neanderthals finally stopped asking … - Colson Whitehead

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I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

Colson Whitehead

I think you're only post-racial when you stop asking if you're post-racial. When the Neanderthals finally stopped asking themselves if they were in a post-saber tooth society, that's when they were post-saber tooth.

Neanderthals, Society, Stop, Stopped, Thinking, Tooth

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In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.

Fiction, Payback, Words, Wronged

What does the perfect elevator look like, the one that will deliver us from the cities we suffer now, these stunted shacks? We don't know because we can't see inside it, it's something we cannot imagine, like the shape of angels' teeth. It's a black box.

Angel, Cities, Perfect, See, Stunted

The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.

Alone, Cities, Knows, Person, Persons

I think each book has its own way of accommodating my concerns, whether it's about race, America, technology, the city.

America, Book, Concerns, Technology, Thinking

I can't say that you should extract this or that value from my books explicitly. They are up for interpretation. In terms of the obligation, I think we're all individuals on this planet, trying to scratch our way through the day, and if you're writing a book exposing atrocities in Rwanda or writing a murder mystery set in a mountain village, I think both ways of spending you time are valid and both books are probably fine to read.

Atrocities, Book, Scratch, Thinking, Way, Writing