Civilized Quote by Red Cloud

I want the white people to understand my people.

— Chief Joseph

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

— Suzanne Vega

I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'

— Junot Diaz

Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.

— Nadine Gordimer

It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.

— bell hooks

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American…

— Ishmael Reed

I use non-fiction work written by Whites in my research. It's indispensable. That wasn't the problem. I said that "The Wire" was a cliché!…

— Ishmael Reed

“There is an ethnic component lurking in the background of my story. In our race-conscious society, our vocabulary often extends no further than the…

— J.D. Vance

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first…

— Albert Maltz

I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.

— Alice Mattison

When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white classmates never…

— Jenny Zhang