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We need a more substantive conversation around race relations and the way people of color are treated.

— Megan Rapinoe

“ 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

Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry."…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

— Vivek Shraya

It feels dismissive to suggest relationships can ever be truly colourblind. And more importantly, I don't believe they ever should be. To not see…

— Vick Hope

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

— Marc Chagall

When I was growing up, there were people of color onscreen, but I never saw interracial couples.

— Isa Briones

My family, friends and community members rarely spoke about race relations, or how people from different races have different experiences growing up in America.…

— Joe Thomas

I think it's really progressive to talk about race in relationships. I think there is so much room for that, and there needs to…

— Jessica Williams

Race prejudice has nothing to do with color. It has to do with being the stranger.

— Joe Morton

Growing up, I never known anybody in my family actually to interact with a person of color.

— Mary L. Trump

“In the Community everything was black and white. Here, romantic relationships took on shades of grey; they were full of uncertainty, maybes, broken promises.”

— Claire Merle