Birthday Quote by Nish Kumar

I've had a somewhat typical experience in that many of the contemporary writers I was exposed to early on were white and often male.

— Laura van den Berg

White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.

— Ntozake Shange

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

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

— Ron Chernow

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

You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I rely heavily on Thomas Sowell's magnificent book, Black Rednecks, White Liberals. He points out that blacks in the North perform better, academically, than…

— Ann Coulter

“All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver, and all those figures I looked upon as…

— Walter Dean Myers

I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I…

— Mary McLeod Bethune

I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and…

— Sherman Alexie

I stumbled upon Charles White purely by chance while looking through a book 'Great Negroes, Past and Present' in the library at Forty-Ninth Street…

— Kerry James Marshall

People look to 'Dear White People' as an encyclopedia of our culture. But it's also art, and there are characters with different perspectives.

— Logan Browning