Colson Whitehead

“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. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn't exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be as near to hell as they can.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist