'An Octoroon' was written over about three years but…

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

— Abraham Maslow

“Some of the most vivid writing in America is on the walls of restrooms. The men's room in the Albany, N.Y. railroad station, for…

— Truman Capote

By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd…

— Richard Russo

The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.

— Helen Fielding

“You can get yourself pretty thoroughly lost, in time and space, if you don't know where you are or where you have just come…

— George Garrett

The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to…

— Sheila Rowbotham

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

— Malcolm X

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

— Nancy Mairs

“Equality of condition and equality of opportunity must provide the foundation of an interdependent nation with building blocks found in dignity and respect given…

— Julie Banks Lewis

“All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of…

— Seyla Benhabib

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period…

— Thomas Jefferson

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle…

— Shulamith Firestone

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

— Simone Weil

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

— Robin Morgan