“There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.” IfsCultureBlackBloodTheoryAfrican AmericanAmerican CultureAfrican American Culture Author:Keegan-Michael Key
“The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect ... but the other reason is that it was a book about being different in a culture where, for the first time in the West, being different wasn't just accepted, but was also fashionable. I don't think it's a coincidence that gay rights, black rights, the empowerment of women and political correctness all happened over those twenty years and a book about outsiders trying to be accepted was almost the poster-boy for this era in American culture.” ThinkingMenTryingYearsFirstsTwoBookDifferentReasonPoliticalCultureBlackPerfectBoysRightsHappenedGayFirst TimeEmpowermentTwentiesWestAcceptedErasOutsidersCoincidenceAmerican CultureFashionablePolitical CorrectnessBeing DifferentPostersGay RightsCorrectnessX Men Author:Mark Millar
“I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.” WritingArtCultureBlackCuttingWho I AmAmerican CulturePlaywright Author:August Wilson
“There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black Americans, about black American culture, about the black experience in America. I write about the black experience of men, or I write about black folks. That's who I am. In the same manner that Chekhov wrote about the Russians, I write about blacks. I couldn't do anything else. I wouldn't do anything else.” MenWritingReasonPlayAmericaCultureBlackFolksWho I AmReason WhyNo ReasonAmerican CulturePlaywrightAugustWilsonChekhov Author:August Wilson