Capture Quote by Paul Beatty

I decided to try to make a show of my own where I could invite an audience to obsess about race the way I…

— Steven C. Harper

“I discovered race in America and it fascinated me.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If you care about this country, if you want to take part in a citizen’s movement that helps heal the deep racial, economic, and…

— Connie May Fowler

For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art,…

— John Edgar Wideman

“And that great mixture was brought to America in the holds of slave ships. To the north, the south. Their sons and daughters picked…

— Colson Whitehead

I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass, looking at…

— Tom Brokaw

I guess you could say I've written a lot about one thing as a journalist. But I hardly ever saw it as exclusively about…

— Alex Tizon

I think a lot about race and the burdens of representation. There's an idea that because I'm writing a book set around the time…

— Ayana Mathis

“Race is neither an essence nor an illusion, but rather an ongoing, contradictory, self-reinforcing process subject to the macro forces of social and political…

— Ian F. Haney López

I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not. In my efforts…

— Robin DiAngelo

In the end, so much of what I wanted to do was to have a body of work that exhaustively looked at black American…

— Kehinde Wiley

Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets,…

— Richard Wright