African american Quote by Tamlyn Tomita

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the…

— Audre Lorde

So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those…

— Cameron Crowe

In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are…

— David Oyelowo

I want to tell human stories not solely based on race. There are so many great actresses and actors that are out there, and…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

I'm interested in stories being told by marginalized voices and, specifically, people of color.

— Natasha Rothwell

I wanted to tell a story about women who live in the rural part of America - what their lives were like, what their…

— Nia DaCosta

I want to find stories that humanize homosexual experience and that's what Peter Gill does well.

— Jonathan Bailey

I feel that, as a person of color, I've always been interested in the stories that are quiet and the stories that often get…

— Tracy K. Smith

My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with…

— Patricia Briggs

We need to include more writers from different backgrounds and ethnicities. We need to see different experiences instead of the same people writing the…

— Letitia Wright

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

— Ajay Naidu

I'm really looking forward to developing just really fun, complex, interesting stories about people who happen to be black.

— Tracie Thoms