“They wrote, yes. But thousands could, if someone would bother to teach them. And everything they wrote was written for whites. Petitions. Appeals. It's another of this world's laws. Blacks will write only about suffering, and only for white people,… — Sara Collins Copy Share Image
I use non-fiction work written by Whites in my research. It's indispensable. That wasn't the problem. I said that "The Wire" was a cliché! It's like my writing a series about Jewish life and casting all of the characters as… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
