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see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted colored people, defined by how much worse it could be at any moment.
Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad hope slavery
I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Intern…
Colson Whitehead distraction internet technology writing
We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.
Colson Whitehead Zone One monsters people perception
The word we. We are not one people but many different people. How can one person speak for this great, beautiful race--which is not one race but many, with a million desires and ho…
Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad people
And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. …
Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad america cruelty delusions slavery theft
The whites were right to be afraid. One day the system would collapse in blood. An insurrection of one. She smiled for a moment, before the facts of her latest cell reasserted them…
Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad freedom
Cora had heard Michael recite the Declaration of Independence back on the Randall plantation many times, his voice drifting through the village like an angry phantom. She didn't un…
Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad equality freedom slavery
But nobody wanted to speak on the true disposition of the world. And no one wanted to hear it... The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their m…
Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad american freedom slavery
Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with the trees up close but from the outside, from the empty meadow, you see its true limits. Being …
Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad chains freedom limits outside shift
You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first kissed so-and-so is now a discount electronics retailer, that wh…
Colson Whitehead The Colossus of New York change consumerism individuality loss memories

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  1. Sporting a whitehead? 72.22%
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  3. "___ Shuffle" (Colson Whitehead novel) 69.57%
  4. Aussie Whitehead 68.75%
  5. Coin in a Colson Whitehead title 66.67%
  6. Whitehead, e.g. 62.07%
  7. Protagonist of Colson Whitehead's "Sag Harbor" 53.33%
  8. Alfred ___ Whitehead: 1861–1947 52.38%
  9. Group discussing Bessie Head or Colson Whitehead 50.00%
  10. Number of Pulitzer Prizes won by Colson Whitehead 49.23%
  11. Protagonist of Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad" 43.24%
  12. Focus of Whitehead and Russell's "Principia Mathematica" 37.14%
  13. 2021 Colson Whitehead novel, or an apt description of this puzzle's theme 36.36%
  14. Charles Colson's book: 1976 33.33%
  15. English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Whitehead 32.94%
  16. Pulitzer-winning Colson Whitehead novel about a reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida 31.68%
  17. Whitehead whose novel "The Nickel Boys" won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in May, 2020 24.00%
  18. ___ Whitehead, author of the 2017 Pulitzer-winning novel "The Underground Railroad" 23.91%
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Unscramble COLSON6-letter words that start with C6-letter words that end in N6-letter words containing OL6-letter words containing ON6-letter words with C and O
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The old plural of Eye.
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