Accomplished Quote by Richard Blanco

The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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

It was just really exciting to see dark people in white people's clothing, or what is perceived as white people garb.

— Okieriete Onaodowan

The trouble is that racial stereotypes, unfavourable to everyone but white men of northwest European extraction, were completely accepted, and indeed, scarcely noted in…

— Isaac Asimov

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we…

— Langston Hughes

[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself. The…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

He[Michael Jackson] had a joy in being alive. There was a joy you felt of him on the stage and making us not just…

— Cornel West

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

— Junot Diaz

There's this idea that many of the attitudes and personality developments in black folks in the diaspora are a consequence of this unresolved trauma.…

— Kerry James Marshall

Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another book called "Symbolism…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“In other ways my story didn’t follow the tradition. Its subversive elements attracted little attention, no doubt because I was deliberately sneaky about them.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin