American culture Quote by Dwayne McDuffie

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'm not saying I have to write a book that's ten times better than my counterparts, but I do think that I have to…

— Jesmyn Ward

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

— Roxane Gay

I'm felt I was writing about love and desire and community and belonging and grief and a whole host of other issues. But race…

— Danzy Senna

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

— Richard Rodriguez

I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am…

— Jon Weisman

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

I believe that we have to be so race-conscious in this day and age.

— Nicole Ari Parker

I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.

— Katori Hall

I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is absolutely massive.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

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

Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.

— Jessica Williams