Choice Quote by Beth Macy

My favorite novel ever is Abraham Verghese's 'Cutting for Stone.' It takes you so many places. I stayed up to 4 in the morning…

— Beth Macy

You just keep shining a light and hoping people will start to pay attention.

— Beth Macy

So many white people don't want to talk about race; it's uncomfortable. Many reason that slavery happened more than a century ago, and people…

— Beth Macy

My dad was a house painter. He was often unemployed by the time I came along.

— Beth Macy

Photographers do more assignments than reporters do, so they know their communities better.

— Beth Macy

I'm a unicorn in the world of journalism; I've stayed in the same mid-sized city, and that staying has allowed me to write two…

— Beth Macy

We need more leadership at every level: federal, state, and local.

— Beth Macy

“Words linger and words matter, I learned, and it’s not possible to predict the fallout they can have on a subject’s life.”

— Beth Macy

My parents were really poor. We never bought books because you could go to the library. It would be stupid to buy one.

— Beth Macy

What I always do is go with the stories that put up the hair on the back of my neck or make me cry…

— Beth Macy

You need time to build relationships with subjects to win their trust.

— Beth Macy

It's amazing what you can find out if you just call an expert, you know?

— Beth Macy