{"quotes":[{"text":"There wasn't a shed of doubt in her mind that he'd fulfill her every sexual fantasy and them some.But was a brief, hot affair worth losing his friendship?","author":"Francis Ray","tags":["contemporary","fiction","multicultural","romance"],"id":569,"author_id":"Francis+Ray"},{"text":"I want to see a flowering of Arab and Jewish cultures in a country without racism or anti-Semitism, without rich or poor or spat-upon: everyone beneath the vine and fig tree living in peace and unafraid. A homeland for each and every one of us between the mountains and the sea. A multilingual, multireligious, many-colored and -peopled land where the orange tree blooms for all. I will not surrender this vision for any lesser compromise.","author":"Aurora Levins Morales","tags":["arab","culture","homeland","israel","jewish","multicultural","multilingual","multireligious","palestine"],"id":618,"author_id":"Aurora+Levins+Morales"},{"text":"Although people all over the world pray in different ways, it is to each heart the most precious light.","author":"Alexis York Lumbard","tags":["children","children-s-books","diversity","god","heart","light","multicultural","picturebooks","prayer","spirituality"],"id":39747,"author_id":"Alexis+York+Lumbard"},{"text":"I know what it’s like to be different. I’m a Native American in a white world.","author":"Tamara Hoffa","tags":["bbw-romance","contemporary-romance","cowboy","firefighter","multicultural","western"],"id":41375,"author_id":"Tamara+Hoffa"},{"text":"Don't think about that. Just believe I'll be okay.","author":"Shane K. Morgan","tags":["college","coming-of-age","contemporary","impossibly-love","interracial-romance","multicultural","new-adult","romance"],"id":68827,"author_id":"Shane+K.+Morgan"},{"text":"Fire and earth are the most sacred of the natural elements. One must cross their path with caution and respect.","author":"Tracey M. Hook","tags":["multicultural","womens","ya"],"id":100705,"author_id":"Tracey+M.+Hook"},{"text":"As a first-generation Ethiopian immigrant, Sheba had lived in Charleston since she turned five years of age. She was Ethiopian by birth, but American by preference. She had worked hard, studied and sacrificed plenty to get where she was today, no easy feat for someone who had just celebrated her twenty-sixth birthday. According to her friends, Sheba was a beauty, though when she looked in the mirror, she saw inevitable flaws; her cheekbones were too pronounced, her mouth a little too wide, her nose with that perturbing slant to it. Still, she accepted compliments gratefully, especially from her roommate, Janelle. Janelle was the true beauty, Sheba thought, with dark ebony skin so smooth that she could be a walking ad for Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate.","author":"Joanna Hynes","tags":["alpha-male","interracial-romance","multicultural","romance-novels"],"id":117059,"author_id":"Joanna+Hynes"},{"text":"They, they, they. That was the problem with people like Joyce. They talked about the richness of their multicultural heritage and it sounded real good, until you noticed that they avoided black people. It wasn't a matter of conscious choice, necessarily, just a matter of gravitational pull, the way integration always worked, a one-way street. The minority assimilated into the dominant culture, not the other way around. Only white culture could be neutral and objective. Only white culture could be nonracial, willing to adopt the occasional exotic into its ranks. Only white culture had individuals. And we, the half-breeds and the college-degreed, take a survey of the situation and think to ourselves, Why should we get lumped in with the losers if we don't want to? We become only so grateful to lose ourselves in the crowd, America's happy, faceless marketplace; and we're never so outraged as when a cabbie drives past us or the woman in the elevator clutches her purse, not so much because we're bothered by the fact that such indignities are what less fortunate coloreds have to put up with every single day of their lives-- although that's what we tell ourselves-- but because we're wearing a Brooks Brothers suit and speak impeccable English and yet have somehow been mistaken for an ordinary nigger.Don't know who I am? I'm an individual!","author":"Barack Obama","tags":["individuality","interracial-interactions","multicultural","race","white-culture","white-people"],"id":134075,"author_id":"Barack+Obama"},{"text":"She'd been trained as a child no to trust anyone, but he'd just saved her life, and she was freezing. He could be a yeti for all she cared.","author":"Krystal Shannan","tags":["contemporary-romance","holiday","humor","multicultural","romance"],"id":191471,"author_id":"Krystal+Shannan"},{"text":"David Hudson was rising in the political field. As a senator from New York, he had it all – good looks, a well-known family name and the finances to go with it, but for David, it was never enough. He graduated from an Ivy League school at the top of his class, and his parents were political royalty in America so he grew up in the spotlight with all of the luxuries one could imagine.","author":"Yolanda Richards","tags":["alpha-male","interracial-romance","multicultural","romance-novels"],"id":253848,"author_id":"Yolanda+Richards"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}