I'm always trying to switch voices and genres.Colson WhiteheadTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“I'm always trying to switch voices and genres.
“I always try to mix it up with each book - changing tone, changing style keeps the work very vital for me.”Colson WhiteheadMix
“I grew up reading the 'Village Voice' and wanting to be one of these multidisciplinary music writers, film writers, book writers. And I lucked out getting a job at the 'Voice' right after college.”Colson Whitehead
“With streaming services, the walls have come down a bit on genres. So I never really set out to make a country record or a pop record. I just wanted to make it mine.”Maren MorrisGenres
“I get most of my influences from specific genres. I listen to a lot of R&B music, obviously. But, jazz, and bossa nova music, too.”Sabrina ClaudioGenres
“Growing up as a product of the black civil-rights movement, I had a lot of different models for black weirdness, whether it's Richard Pryor or James Baldwin or Jimmy Walker.”Colson WhiteheadJames
“Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else you are lying.”Colson WhiteheadAccurately
“He had met this sort of white man before, earnest and believing what came out of their mouths. The veracity of their words was another matter, but at least they believed them. The southern white man was spat from the loins of the devil and there was no way to forecast his next evil act.”Colson WhiteheadTruth
“I love horror, man, it's like one of my favorite genres. The only time I don't like watching horror is when it's just on in the background.”Chris ReddGenres