Quote by John Howard Griffin

“The whites were right to be afraid. One day the system would collapse in blood. An insurrection of one. She smiled for a moment,…

— Colson Whitehead

“Houses had the meanest set of white people in them. Pretty in their living but nasty in their ways.”

— Sarah E Wright

“Everything around me was so starkly white that I began to believe that I would turn white sooner or later. I was quietly being…

— Nikesh Shukla

“There was always something about our family, and I don't mean color--there was something about us that impeded you. You think like a prisoner.…

— Philip Roth

“This strange, beautiful city was my home and that was enough. Whatever happened I would deal with it.”

— Chris Hilton

“How was I supposed to keep living in this town when everything I saw reminded me of someone I'd lost?”

— Morgan Matson

“I realized that my time in this place had come to an end; now that my schooldays were over, I no longer belonged here.…

— Peter Ackroyd

“I couldn't imagine it, living a pristine life in this big Georgian house and everything. It seemed heinous. So I left him. I thought…

— Sarah Rayner

“...the townhouses looked bedraggled, unkempt, like an old homeless woman with an interesting history but a perilous future.”

— Sharon Shinn

“...But wondering takes time, and most of the people of the neighborhood were hard-working people, and so they gradually began to forget.”

— Zipha Keatley Snyder

“I was sick of this town and everything in it.”

— Jay Asher

“Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting alone was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being…

— Sue Monk Kidd