Family Quote by Rachel Bloom

Depictions of race have changed so much since, like, the '50s, where white people just played every race. But the pendulum swings both ways:…

— Dante Basco

Because when you have all white men in the writers' room trying to tell the perspective of cultural appropriation or what it's like to…

— Lexi Underwood

Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same…

— Rachel Bloom

I sense a kind of fear of writing black or Asian characters from non-ethnic writers, who perhaps feel that they don't know the culture…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

It's hard in America as a writer of color, an actor of color, not to get caught up in race and culture. But you're…

— John Cho

There's an expectation of producers and writers and directors perhaps, that trans people only want to play trans.

— Rebecca Root

I'm not asking for there to be all black writer's rooms or all Asian writer's rooms, or all white - I want them all…

— Lena Waithe

You can't ignore the Asian and Hispanic populations in L.A. We can let audiences know independent film is not just about white men.

— Elvis Mitchell

There's so much diversity on TV. It's actually reflecting American culture.

— Ross Butler

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

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

— Jim Harrison