Walter Mosley Quotes

Black writers seldom get the opportunity to write superhero stories.

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu.

A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they're wheeled on in a tokenistic way without any real involvement in the plot.

I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.

We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in America.' All of that is statistically shown and proven but it was because it was good story telling about people who were outsiders.

You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.

I think most people write from what they see in their own world, which is maybe why we so often see an African-American woman as the best friend, or the one you bring in when you need some sass. It's like we're put in a box.

I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But they're not looking for the next Denzel Washington, Will Smith or Sidney Poitier.

I love working on 'Glee,' and I hope that there are more and more parts for me and other actors with Down syndrome in television and in movies so I can keep working for a long, long time.

I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other coloured face.

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.

In my work, I'm always trying not to put barriers up between the 'good poor' and the 'bad poor.' I'm not sure my work will change things much, but at the very least, you want to make people feel that they are not alone.

For me, disability is a physical experience, but it's also a cultural experience and a social experience, and for me, the word 'crip' is the one that best encapsulated all of that.

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

This is an important appointment to a community that has often felt excluded from the decision making process.

The mayor’s administration and staff is like the Rocky Mountains. There higher up it gets, the whiter it gets.

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Disability, in general, hasn't been included in the conversation about inclusivity.

If you're looking at the people who head the institutions, there are very few African Americans or people of colour. I'm talking about the major theatres that position themselves as serving all audiences. What you find is, by and large, people who are shaping what we see, and the people who are the tastemakers are white.

As a woman of color, slowly and with some coercing, the not-for-profit theaters around the country are beginning to recognize and embrace the power of our stories, but with regards to Broadway and other commercial venues, we remain very much marginalized and excluded from that larger creative conversation.

There's a belonging problem in Hollywood. Who dictates who belongs? The very body who dictates that looks all one way.