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You don't want the white men to be written in a three-dimensional way but the black men, not. I mean, it's just about [how]…

— Natalie Dormer

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against…

— Gregory Hines

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

— Anonymous

Ultimately, when I deliver something, a lot of times it will be from a black woman's perspective, but other times it will be just…

— Jessica Williams

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

I've had frank conversations with theaters who say, 'We love your play, but we've already done a play by another black person this year,'…

— Katori Hall

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

But when I do book signings and personal appearances, the audiences are mostly white. Growing up here, I expected that and understand it. Black…

— George Pelecanos

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

“I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it…

— Bell Hooks

I feel like I'm put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is an expectation…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m interested in…

— Ava DuVernay