Quote of the Week

I do not want to find Toni Morrison in the “African American” section of the bookstore. I want to find her in the Great Author section of the bookstore. Our stories, all of us, are important and mainstream. In a nation where Texas and California no longer have “white” majorities, our experiences ARE the mainstream. The media has yet to figure that out. Interestingly, the mainstream American media is more likely to place foreign-born authors in the mainstream category than they are to place homegrown “minority” authors there. Think about this.
--Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, “Misunderstood…again,” La Queen Sucia, July 5, 2007