Crafts Quote by Kwame Dawes Download Open image “Racist writing is a craft failure.” — Kwame Dawes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crafts Failure Inspirational Racism Racist Writing
“Publishing in an academic journal doesn’t do anything to dispel racist ideas.” — Stefan Klein Copy Share Image
Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don't have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Just because I've written extensively about race doesn't render me incapable of making the same mistakes as the people I've written about. — Jemele Hill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To even envision a post-racist society is contingent upon understanding the offensive, dense, and wildly contradictory nature of our racist past and present. Racechanges… — Gayle Pemberton Copy Share Image
Literature has been a treacherous site for black Americans because literary production has been so tied with the project of proving our humanity through… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one reads. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I am not going to say that only people of color can write people of color, because that means only white people can write… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
I believe that many lives around us now can reflect this strange pattern of migration and movement. The question is: are we aware of… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of language that… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
In reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing - an… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
When people open up and share their stories, you have a responsibility to tell these truths truthfully and with the same quest for grace… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
Latino poets, are really having a significant impact on American poetics today. — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
For me, reggae music and its aesthetic are touchstones in both simple and complex ways. Reggae's capacity to be a folk music that is… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today.… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
HIV is no respecter of persons. Any of us could find ourselves with the disease, and then what? We tend to stigmatize as a… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
One of the blessings and curses of my life is that I carry so many projects at the same time. — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start… — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are,… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me. — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival… — Janice Y. K. Lee Copy Share Image
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