Colson Whitehead New Quotations

You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

To put off the inevitable, we try to fix the city in place, remember it as it was, doing to the city what we would never allow to be done to ourselves. . . . New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

Talking about New York is a way of talking about the world.

New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.