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Colson Whitehead Quotes:

Ocupation: Novelist

Life: b. November 6, 1969

Birthday: November 6

In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away realizing - not surprisingly - that many slave masters were sadists who spent a lot of time thinking up creative ways of hurting people.

- Colson Whitehead

source: Source: www.oprah.com

topic: Hurt, Thinking, People, Hurting People

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