Black Quote by Natalie Dormer

It's not often that scripts come across our desks that are written so poetic and so honest from our perspective, as a black man…

— Rob Morgan

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against…

— Gregory Hines

I always feel that the best roles are written for white guys.

— Marlon Wayans

There were not a lot of roles for a black man like myself that were different. Then 'Top Boy' came. I read the script…

— Ashley Walters

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie…

— Wentworth Miller

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

— Ron Chernow

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

— Anonymous

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

— Rebecca Solnit

...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female.…

— Toni Morrison

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'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

There's some places where it will be a white person telling you that they can write for Black people better than you can. That's…

— Janelle James