"My compulsion to write the story was from seeing so many people go unpunished, and so many innocents' stories being untold…"
— Colson Whitehead

January 1, 1970

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On his moral imperative to write his work The Nickel Boys in “INTERVIEWS—Powell's Interview: Colson Whitehead, Author of 'The Nickel Boys'” in Powell’s City of Books (2019 Jul 11)