Assuming Quote by Roxane Gay

Whiteness is not the default in my fiction.

— Roxane Gay

There's this sense that whiteness is the default and does not need to be questioned. That you've got a race if you're black, or…

— Celeste Ng

I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead, or even…

— Brian K. Vaughan

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

Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture.

— Merle Woo

I get the feeling that audiences have become mature and they understand that not every character is in black or white. There can be…

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

We live in a world in which it's harder to talk about the American in the singular, so we're a multi. We have several…

— Nell Irvin Painter

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

— Leonard Nimoy

Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.

— Roxane Gay

Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are “universally accepted.”

— Manning Marable

The privileged position of whiteness doesn't allow for someone with one drop of Negro blood to be considered white, which allows whiteness to be…

— Kerry James Marshall

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.

— Diane Keaton