Ends Quote by Carolyn Parkhurst

“I knew, and every black man there knew, that I, as a man now white once again, could say the things that needed saying…

— John Howard Griffin

I never wrote sentences with words, they were painful feelings with unsaid emotions

— Sushan Sharma

You know, I say in my lyrics, "Every word I write will be analyzed by somebody white." It's just that I know that this…

— Ice T

What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words…

— Juliana Spahr

I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.

— Anne Sexton

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

“No whitness lost is so white as the memory of whitness”

— Dalia sofer

There was this wave of people who were upset that I was possibly married to a white man.

— Jodie Turner-Smith

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it…

— Alice Mattison

“It was bad enough for white people, but when one of your own color could be so different: it put you in a wonder.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words…

— Marguerite Duras