Being Quote by Natasha Rothwell

I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of…

— Lynn Nottage

I feel that, as a person of color, I've always been interested in the stories that are quiet and the stories that often get…

— Tracy K. Smith

Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of disenfranchisement, the social strata and boundaries we…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“ A true writer should be able to write about any color. It's the story they tell that should affect people, not the race.”

— Dee Dee M Scott

I wanted to use my voice to address colourism because I am so aware of how awful it is and it is just something…

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

“Stories give color to black and white information.”

— Todd Stocker

I just want different narratives for people of color, especially women of color. I just want something that's different. I don't want us to…

— Viola Davis

There are advances in technology and enabling voices, but there are issues with the stories themselves. I think people of color are still not…

— Charles Burnett

So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those…

— Cameron Crowe

You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative.

— Kehinde Wiley

White filmmakers get so many opportunities to create stories, and how better could you use your voice than to take people of color and…

— Taylor Russell

The U.S. is a rainbow of people with an endless scope of stories. My hope is that writing stories about people of color will…

— Lela Loren