People Quote by Junot Diaz

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

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it…

— Alice Mattison

When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.

— Bill Cosby

“These racialized narratives tend to confirm and reinforce the prevailing public consensus that we need not care about “those people”; they deserve what they…

— Michelle Alexander

It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.

— bell hooks

I think a lot of times stereotypes come when there are disconnected white writers who maybe have two or three black friends, and they…

— Dorian Missick

I don't think being white defines who I am.

— Paul Wall

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 don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.

— Alice Mattison

I believe that white people need to check themselves, account for their privileges, and undergo whatever interaction with communities of color with that understanding.…

— Bocafloja

Nothing about being white describes who I am.

— Rachel Dolezal

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