If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you. Randall Kennedy
With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from. Shawn Johnson
Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background. Van Wyck Brooks