Colson Whitehead Quotes

It Was Nigh Impossible To Understand Howard's Speech Under Normal Circumstances. He Favored A Pidgin Of His Lost African Tongue And Slave Talk. In The Old Days, Her Mother Had Told Her, That Half Language Was The Voice Of The Plantation. They Had Been Stolen From Villages All Over Africa And Spoke A Multitude Of Tongues. The Words From Across The Ocean Were Beaten Out Of Them Over Time. For Simplicity, To Erase Their Identities, To Smother Uprisings. All The Words Except For The Ones Locked Away By Those Who Still Remembered Who They Had Been Before. "They Keep 'em Hid Like Precious Gold," Mabel Said.

Colson Whitehead Quotes: It Was Nigh Impossible To Understand Howard's Speech Under Normal Circumstances. He Favored A Pidgin Of His Lost African Tongue

Colson Whitehead Quotes: It Was Nigh Impossible To Understand Howard's Speech Under Normal Circumstances. He Favored A Pidgin Of His Lost African Tongue

Colson Whitehead Quotes: It Was Nigh Impossible To Understand Howard's Speech Under Normal Circumstances. He Favored A Pidgin Of His Lost African Tongue

Colson Whitehead Quotes: It Was Nigh Impossible To Understand Howard's Speech Under Normal Circumstances. He Favored A Pidgin Of His Lost African Tongue

Colson Whitehead Quotes: It Was Nigh Impossible To Understand Howard's Speech Under Normal Circumstances. He Favored A Pidgin Of His Lost African Tongue

Colson Whitehead Quotes: It Was Nigh Impossible To Understand Howard's Speech Under Normal Circumstances. He Favored A Pidgin Of His Lost African Tongue

Colson Whitehead Quotes: It Was Nigh Impossible To Understand Howard's Speech Under Normal Circumstances. He Favored A Pidgin Of His Lost African Tongue

Colson Whitehead Quotes: It Was Nigh Impossible To Understand Howard's Speech Under Normal Circumstances. He Favored A Pidgin Of His Lost African Tongue

Colson Whitehead Quotes: It Was Nigh Impossible To Understand Howard's Speech Under Normal Circumstances. He Favored A Pidgin Of His Lost African Tongue

Colson Whitehead Quotes: It Was Nigh Impossible To Understand Howard's Speech Under Normal Circumstances. He Favored A Pidgin Of His Lost African Tongue

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