Forget about the white-man (I really mean the establishment, etc.). Don’t even consider him. Don’t sell yourself and your vision short. Believe in you, others will too.
Check out this great post on the need to diversify (and starting by forgetting about the straightwhitedude), with Toni’s quote below as a main theme:
Almost all of the African-American writers that I know were very much uninterested in one particular area of the world, which is white men. That frees up a lot. It frees up the imagination, because you don’t have that gaze. And when I say white men, I don’t mean just the character, I mean the establishment, the reviewers, the publishers, the people who are in control. So once you erase that from your canvas, you can really play.
Toni Morrison.
