“There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American writer, not being white and brought up on wheat germ. My fiction got lost.” BookLostWhiteFictionAudienceRegardIndianWheatGermsAmerican Writer Author:Bharati Mukherjee
“Although The Terminator is arguably the more visionary of the first two films, [Terminator 2] is the more visually and viscerally satisfying. It's an exhausting experience and, even 18 years after its release (as I write this review), few films have matched it within the science fiction genre for sheer white-knuckle exhilaration.” WritingYearsFirstsTwoFilmWhiteFictionScience FictionReleaseGenreReviewsSatisfyingSheerVisionariesExhaustingMatchedExhilarationKnucklesTerminator 2 Author:James Berardinelli
“The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their feet were still rooted in it. Con el destierro y el exilo fuimos desuñados, destroncados, destripados - we were jerked out by the roots, truncated, disemboweled, dispossessed, and separated from our identity and our history.” StillsPoliticalWhiteFictionViolenceFeetLandIdentityRootsOppressionMexicoLockedRootedSuperiorityPolitical PowerStripping Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“As a youngster, I read of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction. And as a fighter pilot, I observed the selection of the Mercury astronauts. All this was fascinating, but I really didn't think I would ever be a part of it. It was only when my good friend Ed White was selected as a Gemini astronaut that I decided to join NASA as part of the Apollo program.” ThinkingWhiteFictionStudentsProgramDecidedScience FictionFighterReportsFascinatingPilotsFlashGood FriendSelectionApolloAstronautBucksRogerSelectedNasaYoungstersMercuryFighter PilotBuck RogersFlash Gordon Author:Buzz Aldrin
“Imagine a crime series in which, every week, there is a white suspect and a black suspect. And every week, lo and behold, the black one turns out to have done it. Unpardonable, of course. And my point is that you could not defend it by saying: "But it's only fiction, only entertainment."” DoneTurnsCoursesBlackWhiteFictionImagineWeekCrimeSeriesEntertainmentSuspects Author:Richard Dawkins
“I was on a panel with light skinned Blacks and a famous gay science fiction writer, who were complaining about how Blacks are against gays and light skinned Blacks and how intolerant Blacks are of different groups. My position was that Blacks were among the most humanistic, tolerant groups in the country and that across the street from my house in Oakland was one inhabited by White gays.” DifferentCountryLightHouseWhiteFictionGroupsStreetsPositionGayScience FictionComplainingFiction WritersHumanisticOakland Author:Ishmael Reed
“I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead, or even if you were a hobbit, you're going to be white. That was an extremely old-fashioned, obviously really narrow-minded way to look at things.” IfsWayLooksWhiteFictionFantasyYouthScience FictionI RealizedOld FashionedDefaultLukeNarrow-minded Author:Brian K. Vaughan
“If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is "black" or "white." I may describe the color of their skin - black eyes, beige skin, blue eyes, dark skin, etc. But I'm not talking about race.” IfsWritingMayPersonsEyeBlackDarkWhiteRaceFictionTalkingColorSkinsBlueAppearanceEtcNot TalkingBlue EyesBlack Or WhiteBlack EyesPhysical AppearanceDark Skin Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“[Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction is a very narrow idea that, world-historically, evolved over the last sixty or seventy years or so - that until the rise of that kind of third-person-limited, middle-aged-white-guy-experiencing-enlightenment story as in some way the epitome of literary fiction - before that all kinds of crazy things that we would now define as belonging to genre were part of the literary canon.” WorldWayWritingYearsKindPersonsIdeasStoriesLastsGuyWhiteFictionCrazyMiddleEnlightenmentThirdsAll KindsGenreBelongingSixtySeventiesMiddle AgedCanonCrazy ThingsEpitomeWhite GuysThird PersonBrash Author:Emily Barton
“I'm not so fond of the sort of science fiction that isn't really science fiction but is sometimes thought to be - Gothic princesses and white horses and bats and castles and things.” SometimesWhiteFictionHorseScience FictionPrincessBatsCastlesGothicWhite Horse Author:Richard Dawkins
“[The Women's Room] is very much a white woman's piece of fiction, for sure. But for me, as a white woman, I related to a lot of it and continue to as I've gotten older, and especially at this moment in time, I want to read it again.” WantMomentsWhiteRoomsFictionPiecesRelatedMoments In Time Author:June Diane Raphael
“Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to challenge the accretion, the intellectual accretion, the philosophical secretion that generates within the edifice of white supremacy that allows people easy escape, and egress. And I'm saying, "No, you can't leave now. You cannot afford to not know what I'm talking about, because you gotta be held accountable."” PeopleKnowsEasyChallengesWhiteFictionTalkingIntellectualPhilosophicalMythNarrativeConstructionWhite SupremacySaying NoSupremacyWhitenessArtificeEdifice Author:Michael Eric Dyson