Heartbreaking Quote by Jacqueline Woodson

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

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 have hidden my race for 22 books. I have hidden behind my married name, which is very Caucasian, because I didn't feel safe…

— Tess Gerritsen

“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 routinely get e-mails from readers who are disgusted because they feel the race card is played too much and inappropriately. (By the way,…

— Jemele Hill

I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice,…

— Booker T. Washington

I heard about the book and I said, 'Oh my god, I've got to read this book,' and I didn't know that a white…

— Viola Davis

Much of America is petrified to bring up race, especially in public forums - the media, in particular.

— Andrew Breitbart

It's very uncomfortable to talk about race. It often devolves before it begins.

— Jordan Peele

Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.

— Roxane Gay

I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central…

— Vivek Shraya

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