Asian Quote by Lena Waithe

Because when you have all white men in the writers' room trying to tell the perspective of cultural appropriation or what it's like to…

— Lexi Underwood

Writers are always diverse on the inside.

— Pat Mora

I knew there were calls for diversity in children's lit, but you always wonder as a person of color, how diverse is too diverse?

— Angie Thomas

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

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors…

— Jesmyn Ward

But when I do book signings and personal appearances, the audiences are mostly white. Growing up here, I expected that and understand it. Black…

— George Pelecanos

I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of…

— Michael Stuhlbarg

Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't…

— Toni Morrison

Typically, there's this perspective among writers - and black writers: there's this idea that there is one person - and maybe beyond writers -…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The number of African Americans in my profession is woefully small; about two percent of architects in the country are black. I'd like to…

— Philip Freelon

Here's the thing, we talk about diversity in the media as if it's some weird artificial construct that we're putting onto these narratives. But…

— Leigh Bardugo

It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

— Carson Kressley