Bears Quote by Alice Mattison

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American…

— Ishmael Reed

There's some places where it will be a white person telling you that they can write for Black people better than you can. That's…

— Janelle James

I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one reads.

— Derek Walcott

I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'

— Junot Diaz

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

— Anonymous

There are words that I wouldn't say because they hurt people's feelings. I just happen to be a white guy who writes for a…

— Neal Brennan

“African-American writers with an independent vision are often consigned to obscurity. The white critics can only tolerate one black writer at a time, usually…

— Ishmael Reed

The way black people feel, especially, is if you're going to tell a black story, let it come from a real place.

— Algee Smith

I think a lot of times stereotypes come when there are disconnected white writers who maybe have two or three black friends, and they…

— Dorian Missick

It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.

— bell hooks

I feel like I'm put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is an expectation…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.

— Alice Mattison