Books Quote by Leigh Bardugo

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

I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am…

— Jon Weisman

Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture is more…

— Benjamin Jealous

I heard about the book and I said, 'Oh my god, I've got to read this book,' and I didn't know that a white…

— Viola Davis

The idea that a person can be both black and white - and at the same time neither - is novel in America.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.

— Roxane Gay

“In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white," until later their true colors come out.”

— Anthony Liccione

“This book is about racial identity, something most people who are not white take for granted. They come to it early, feel it strongly,…

— Jared Taylor

In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying…

— Maggie Stiefvater

There's this sense that whiteness is the default and does not need to be questioned. That you've got a race if you're black, or…

— Celeste Ng

Whiteness is not the default in my fiction.

— Roxane Gay

All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.

— Benjamin Disraeli