America Quote by Thomas Chatterton Williams

It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle.

— Jess Row

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors…

— Jesmyn Ward

“Throughout this book I will use the terms African-American, black, and Negro interchangeably. There is rarely a logic to it, so please try not…

— Baratunde R. Thurston

I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one reads.

— Derek Walcott

Some stories aren't black and white.

— CJ Roberts

Human beings are not black and white.

— Hugh Panaro

“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

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

Typically, there's this perspective among writers - and black writers: there's this idea that there is one person - and maybe beyond writers -…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

There's not one black narrative. There's not one way to be black.

— Yvonne Orji

There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a Black American…

— Gloria Naylor

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these…

— Ralph Ellison