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“In dealing with newspaper people, whether they are white or black, there is no way of getting their sympathy and support like that of…

— Booker T. Washington

“Everyone goes into journalism for different reasons—and they’re often idealistic ones.”

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Real life is disobliging. People like to think, or feel, in black and white. Having to assess the relative values of all those intermediate…

— Colin Watson

“It's easy to let the assholes, the jerks, the bullies, the green-eyed monsters occupy all your mental headlines but look around, you've got friends…

— Ezekiel Tyrus

“But in the world I was raised in, amid the countless media images I took in as a girl, I got this crazy notion…

— Diane Guerrero

It has been my unbroken policy not to see newspaper writers or give interviews to anyone. At the word interview spoken or written my…

— Grace Coolidge

The reliance on stereotypes is in part the result of a structural problem within the media. Most newspapers have a business beat, with a…

— Sasha Abramsky

“I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.”

— Charles Lamb

“People pretend he’s a white man when it suits them, erasing part of who he is.”

— Rae Carson

“Liberate yourself from the white/black dichotomy!”

— Ed Morales