America Quote by Lexi Underwood

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

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'm not asking for there to be all black writer's rooms or all Asian writer's rooms, or all white - I want them all…

— Lena Waithe

Why is the world that I see around me mixed, and why is the world I see in movies filled with all white people?…

— John Leguizamo

It makes white men uncomfortable that there aren't more stories about them because it somehow is perpetuating the idea that they aren't the center…

— Marielle Heller

When 93 percent of our stories are told by white men, it's an issue. And if those white men go on and tell the…

— Lexi Alexander

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

It's hard in America as a writer of color, an actor of color, not to get caught up in race and culture. But you're…

— John Cho

If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always white men who do that, and you don't…

— Isabel Allende

I think that if there can be considered racism it's to do with the lack of opportunities for writers and producers and the people…

— Denzel Washington

In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without centering whiteness…

— Jenna Wortham

In America, and no doubt elsewhere, we have such a tendency toward the segregation of cultural products. This is a black book, this is…

— Ayana Mathis