” Writers of color are given certain messages – explicit or implicit – about what they’re allowed to write about or what will be successful if they write about it. And white writers are given another set of implicit and, sometimes, explicit messages. “
” White writers in many cases choose not to populate their fiction with people of color. A lot of what I’m doing is trying to write against that, not about race but against the avoidance of race that’s such a dominant model in white literary discourse. “
” White Americans have the option of not having to think about race on a daily basis. People of color don’t. Race is a major deciding factor in their lives and the histories of their families. “
” As a white teen, I was very drawn to hip-hop culture, almost to the point of disappearing in it – there was a sense of having no sense of authenticity except this one that wasn’t mine. “
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