Doe Quote by Vivek Shraya Download Open image “Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.” — Vivek Shraya ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doe Love Love story Racism Stories Writing
I didn't want to be apologetic about my love story, and I think to be willing to write about love you have to be… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“ A true writer should be able to write about any color. It's the story they tell that should affect people, not the race.” — Dee Dee M Scott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry."… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Racism is alive and well in this country; we have to learn how to love someone who doesn't look like us. — Leigh Anne Tuohy Copy Share Image
I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don't have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. I don't… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I am more likely to get paid for my art if it's presented alongside a white artist, so the questions around value and agency… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
I used singing as a safety measure. I would pay attention to what songs the popular girls liked, learn those songs from the radio… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
My intention was never to write a "trans novel" - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
I especially worry about the ways Canadians can be glib about our supposed difference from the US in our "acceptance" of "diversity." — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
My art career often feels less like an art career and more like a career in educating, usually by using my body. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art, including my… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
In my thirties, I have felt a greater urgency to make art that highlights what it feels like to be racialized, likely due to… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
