Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without measures like it, people in charge would not have, sadly, enough impetus to do, as cliched as it… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
I have an obligation as a writer to tell a story as interestingly as possible, but with integrity and not inserting false drama... I'm… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
Race is a subject about which there are points of agreement, and about which there is no agreement; a subject that is either spoken… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society. — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
In writing non-fiction about people who are living, you are always walking a fine line, carrying a burden to be fair that, in my… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without measures like… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
At the very least, we want everything to go on hold for a while because there is this feeling that we're heading down a… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure. — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
Race is used, by all of us, in the most manipulative ways, is often force-fit and reduced to something it isn't, to something that… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
Don't sit and wish for some ideal; the grass is not always greener with the big house and cars and artwork. — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege. — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image