Emily Raboteau

Emily Raboteau (born 1976) is an American fiction writer, essayist, and professor of creative writing at the City College of New York. Quotes That mess about judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin — that's some bullshit. Nobody has the right to judge anybody else. Period. If you ain't been in my skin, you ain't never gonna understand my character. The Professor's Daughter (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2004), ch. 1 (p. 17) — Bernie-ism 15:2 "Slavery is not the only story about black people. It’s only a small story! Don’t they know that if tomorrow a slave ship arrived at Elmina to carry us to America, so many Ghanaians would climb on board that this ship would sink to the bed of the ocean from our weight?" He laughed. I couldn’t help laughing myself. But who was the butt of the joke? Searching for Zion (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013), ch. 15 (p. 223) — Elolo loq. External links Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Essayists from the United States Category:Women academics from the United States Category:New York University alumni Category:Yale University alumni Category:American Book Award winners Category:Women authors from the United States Category:People from New Jersey Category:1976 births Category:Women born in the 1970s Category:Living people