Default Quote by Roxane Gay Download Open image “Whiteness is not the default in my fiction.” — Roxane Gay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Default Fiction Whiteness
We assume whiteness is the default because whiteness, historically, has been the default. This is one of the many reasons diverse representation matters so… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
If you go to a big publishing house, editorial aside, it's completely white. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
With my coloring, I'm nothing in black and white. I've seen my films sometimes on black-and-white TV. Disaster. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins. — Daniel Mason Copy Share Image
If you cast an all-white movie and it doesn't do well, no one will say it's because you had an all-white cast. — Justin Lin Copy Share Image
Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast. — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying… — Maggie Stiefvater 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
Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression. — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default. — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
My combined experiences, doing different films, has made me very concerned about and interested in how you protect your creative self when the work,… — Sharlto Copley Copy Share Image
When I get stressed out my de-stress default is - not cat videos - but I just watch his surrogates. They're so entertaining. It's… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
My face frowns by default, so when I'm most calm is when I appear the least approachable. — Ken Leung Copy Share Image
I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys… — Cam Newton Copy Share Image
I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick Copy Share Image
The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
