Colored Quote by Arna Bontemps

As a writer of colour, you have to be victim or perpetrator.

— Marlon James

“The school takes its coloring from your own attitude,”

— Thomas E. Sanders

I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.

— Jim Hodges

“The kind of writers I hate the most are those that are completely bereft of distinguishing colors,and so gladly troop out with sundry mediocres…

— Rotimi Ogunjobi

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory…

— Annie Dillard

It is deeply unfair to task writers of color with unique responsibilities that we don't assign to all writers.

— Roxane Gay

You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative.

— Kehinde Wiley

“ A true writer should be able to write about any color. It's the story they tell that should affect people, not the race.”

— Dee Dee M Scott

You cannot act a color. Do not tell me I'm acting black, because I'm not. I'm acting whatever you want to call it -…

— Danielle Bregoli

It's hard in America as a writer of color, an actor of color, not to get caught up in race and culture. But you're…

— John Cho

I wanted to use my voice to address colourism because I am so aware of how awful it is and it is just something…

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

Color is enslaved by line, that becomes writing.

— Yves Klein