Crafts Quote by Kwame Dawes

“Publishing in an academic journal doesn’t do anything to dispel racist ideas.”

— Stefan Klein

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

— Vivek Shraya

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

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

Racists are deficient as human beings.

— George C. Wolfe

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'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

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

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

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

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

— Diana Trilling

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