I think Quote by James Welch

Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm…

— Teju Cole

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

— Jim Harrison

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be…

— Stanley Schmidt

I've been asked since my undergrad if I want my characters to be limited by ethnicity. So far, it hasn't helped me back.

— Lily Gladstone

Most peoples work ethnic tends to be OK, but not fantastic.

— Paul Nassif

Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.

— Ishmael Reed

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors…

— Jesmyn Ward

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 sense a kind of fear of writing black or Asian characters from non-ethnic writers, who perhaps feel that they don't know the culture…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

We all have our opinions. But I suspect that writers are actually less worth heeding, because they regard themselves as so uniquely important, so…

— Simon Hoggart

My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on…

— Donald Byrd

After moving from Montreal (where French vs.English is the only conflict) to New York (where everyone is obsessed with race) it was impossible to…

— Gavin McInnes