“Growing up as a product of the black civil-rights movement, I had a lo...” — Colson Whitehead Quote

“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.”

“Each book requires a different kind of treatment and structural gambit.”

“I was sort of a miserable teenager.”

“William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.”

“What my first son James did was allow me to care for something in this world when I couldn't care for myself. James saved my life.”

“I'd love to do a James Bond-y kind of villain!”