Assuming Quote by Roxane Gay Download Open image “Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.” — Roxane Gay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Assuming Books Character Defined Ifs Needs Race Racism Reader White
I have been extremely proactive in putting myself up for characters that may have been meant to specifically be Caucasian. You bring an interesting… — Archie Panjabi Copy Share Image
It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle. — Jess Row Copy Share Image
I always think about race as a part of one's identity, not the whole of one's identity. You don't want it to be the… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
I am not going to say that only people of color can write people of color, because that means only white people can write… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
“ A true writer should be able to write about any color. It's the story they tell that should affect people, not the race.” — Dee Dee M Scott Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm concerned about is that I really want to make sure the races of all the characters are kept. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
When I go to the movies, I'm expected to identify with all of the characters, and most of them are white. But when you… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?' — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Human endurance fascinates me, probably too much because more often than not, I think of life in terms of enduring instead of living.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I was a daydreamer and I resented being pulled out of my daydreams to deal with the business of living.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I've noticed while cooking, how ingredients in their individual and naked state and be a bit repulsive but necessary, kind of like people.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I shouted, “This is not right,” knowing my words were useless. There’s no room for such distinctions in a country where too many people… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“What about other women of color? For Hispanic and Latina women, Indian women, Middle Eastern women, Asian women, their absence in popular culture is… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of these discussions… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our… — James T. Conway Copy Share Image
Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity… — Joe Craft Copy Share Image
A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never expect to… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies. — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
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