Black Quote by Alice Mattison

There's some places where it will be a white person telling you that they can write for Black people better than you can. That's…

— Janelle James

It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.

— bell hooks

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American…

— Ishmael Reed

There are places and spaces for black writers to write about race as a central thing. It's important. We're still dealing with the remnants…

— Kwame Alexander

The way black people feel, especially, is if you're going to tell a black story, let it come from a real place.

— Algee Smith

I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one reads.

— Derek Walcott

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it…

— Alice Mattison

I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'

— Junot Diaz

A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to work... and…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.

— August Wilson

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher