Belonging Quote by Danzy Senna

Everyone is so estranged; no one is rooted. That's what I like to write about more than anything else. Everything being so mixed up.…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I don't want the whole of my writing or my intellectual energy given over to race because I have diverse interests.

— Roxane Gay

Remember where you have been and know where you are going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step…

— Nikita Koloff

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 write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.

— Richard Rodriguez

Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry."…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I didn't want to be apologetic about my love story, and I think to be willing to write about love you have to be…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There are places and spaces for black writers to write about race as a central thing. It's important. We're still dealing with the remnants…

— Kwame Alexander

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

— Vivek Shraya

I'm conscious of race whenever I'm writing, just as I'm conscious of class, religion, human psychology, politics — everything that makes up the human…

— Dwayne McDuffie

In my experience, I've loved all races. It's not like I can only be with my people.

— Lana Condor

I guess you could say I've written a lot about one thing as a journalist. But I hardly ever saw it as exclusively about…

— Alex Tizon