About Quote by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I'm felt I was writing about love and desire and community and belonging and grief and a whole host of other issues. But race…

— Danzy Senna

I think a lot about race and the burdens of representation. There's an idea that because I'm writing a book set around the time…

— Ayana Mathis

Everything that I've gone through informs me and my opinions in a way, I guess because I am a child of segregation. I lived…

— Samuel L. Jackson

We understand 'Roots,' and that experience was mind-boggling, and it changed the way society viewed race relations. It was incredibly important. With 'Roots,' I…

— Esai Morales

“Ours has been an expansionist society, but that narrative must change as we run out of places to expand into. But our culture is…

— James Rozoff

“I write to breath life back into memory to remind African-Americans of our rich and textured history. I also see myself as a "root,"…

— Bernice L. McFadden

As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The big change that's happened for me in terms of my own life and how outsidership is reflected in my work is that I…

— Ira Sachs

Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Basically, I'm motivated to write about sociopolitical issues as well as relationships. I think those themes have stayed with me throughout my life.

— Jimmy Cliff

I suppose our lives need to be more integrated. We have white communities and black communities and white country clubs and black country clubs.…

— Diahann Carroll

I have for a long time felt that our society is becoming more and more fractured and divisive and that you could go a…

— Nancy Pearl