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Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead é um romancista americano. É autor de sete romances, incluindo seu trabalho de estreia em 1999, The Intuitionist e The Underground Railroad , pelo qual ganhou o National Book Award de 2016 de Ficção e o Prêmio Pulitzer de 2017 de Ficção ; ele ganhou o Prêmio Pulitzer de Ficção novamente em 2020 por The Nickel Boys . Também publicou dois livros de não ficção. Em 2002, ele recebeu uma MacArthur Fellowship . Wikipedia  

✵ 6. Novembro 1969   •   Outros nomes Колсон Вайтхед
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“Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.”

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Colson Whitehead livro The Underground Railroad

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“I never know when I start out. You know, I sort of know what the ending is. I know where the characters always end up, and I usually have an image of the last page before I start. I'm a big outliner. But you can't know everything and you have to be open to discovery…”

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Colson Whitehead

On how envisioning an ending allows him to conclude each character’s journey in “Extended interview: Colson Whitehead on writing ‘The Nickel Boys’" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/extended-interview-colson-whitehead-on-writing-the-nickel-boys/ in CBS News (2019 Jul 14)

“We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.”

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Colson Whitehead livro Zone One

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“Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.”

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Colson Whitehead livro The Underground Railroad

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“The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others.”

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Colson Whitehead livro The Underground Railroad

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“It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.”

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Colson Whitehead livro The Intuitionist

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“Cora didn't know what optimistic meant. She asked the other girls that night if they were familiar with the word. None of them had heard it before. She decided that it meant trying.”

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Colson Whitehead livro The Underground Railroad

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“Truth was a changing display in a shop window, manipulated by hands when you weren’t looking, alluring and ever out of reach.”

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Colson Whitehead livro The Underground Railroad

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“My compulsion to write the story was from seeing so many people go unpunished, and so many innocents' stories being untold…”

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On his moral imperative to write his work The Nickel Boys in “INTERVIEWS—Powell's Interview: Colson Whitehead, Author of 'The Nickel Boys'” https://www.powells.com/post/interviews/powells-interview-colson-whitehead-author-of-the-nickel-boys in Powell’s City of Books (2019 Jul 11)