Blame Quote by George Pelecanos

“Are you kidding me?' Shan asked, slightly drunk, slightly dramatic, and now sitting yoga style on the floor. 'You can't write an honest novel…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“I’m not arguing that we deserve more sympathy than other folks. This is not a story about why white people have more to complain…

— J.D. Vance

Race is the true protagonist of the American novel. Our most popular classic fictions have known this, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Beloved;' all these…

— Kevin Young

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

— Ralph Ellison

“This book is about racial identity, something most people who are not white take for granted. They come to it early, feel it strongly,…

— Jared Taylor

This case is just as racist as the fictional, but unfortunately all too typical case, in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.

— John Simon

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American…

— Ishmael Reed

“Curing America's racial pathology couldn't be done with good intentions or presidential elections. Like all diseases, it had to be analyzed at a microscopic…

— Mat Johnson

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

— Octavia E. Butler

It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle.

— Jess Row

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live…

— Anonymous

“Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son".”

— David L. Cohn