The Nickel Boys

by Colson Whitehead

My struggle is your struggle, your burden is my burden.

Make a career of humanity. Make it a central part of your life.

The hearing was seeing, too, in bright strokes across the mind’s canvas.

Great writing

Watch and think and plan. Let the world be a mob—Elwood will walk through it.

Tended to it like it was a candle flame cupped in his hand out of the wind.