Black Quote by Terry McMillan

“African-American writers with an independent vision are often consigned to obscurity. The white critics can only tolerate one black writer at a time, usually…

— Ishmael Reed

Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics?

— Cornel West

I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things out and…

— Wesley Morris

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American…

— Ishmael Reed

“Never trust a white person black people don’t like.”

— John Grisham

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.

— Robert Browning

It always seemed to me that white people were judged as individuals. But if a Negro did something stupid or wrong, it was held…

— Annie Elizabeth Delany

I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'

— Junot Diaz

“When black folk say “Black Lives Matter,” they are in search of simple recognition. That they are decent human beings, that they aren’t likely…

— Michael Eric Dyson

All critics have the responsibility to tease out the social ideas and social problems in a movie. I don't feel an obligation to do…

— Wesley Morris

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it…

— Alice Mattison

“Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out…

— Anonymous