Colson Whitehead Quote

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.


The Colossus of New York (ed. Anchor, 2007) - ISBN: 9780307428288


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...

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...

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...

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...