Black and white Quote by Mat Kearney

In the '80s and '90s, I was really interested in, moved by, exhilarated by, and troubled by rap in all the ways a white…

— John Hodgman

My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book as an adult novel, which everyone…

— Rick Yancey

I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after. In some ways, the genre is almost gone. I am thinking…

— Hedi Slimane

I don't have a community like a black community to belong to [with] a musical platform that's been built for years and years and…

— M.I.A

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

Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.

— Elizabeth Noble

I realized with Broadway everything written for black people is usually written in the past, and I'm kind of a contemporary guy. I don't…

— Chris Rock

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

— Jacob Lawrence

Urban is not actually my world. It was me trying something out, basically. I come from a gospel background.

— Labrinth

I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

— Katori Hall

Writing New People I was thinking a lot about the era that I came of age - the 90's. Brooklyn, in particular, this moment…

— Danzy Senna

'City Is Mine' was a real big video for me and a good opportunity to learn how to play out a scene.

— Steve Carr