Black and white Quote by Amiri Baraka

There's a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don't know that other groups of people of color have that same…

— N. K. Jemisin

“The Misery Merchants tell us, for example, that most blacks are poor. In fact, only one in four black families is poor, and only…

— Tammy Bruce

There's probably more of a struggle to get material and narratives published that really speak to black culture. And that has a lot to…

— Jerry Pinkney

“Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out…

— Anonymous

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors…

— Jesmyn Ward

“Shout out to all the Black writers who push the world forward by sharing the stories, lives, history, imaginations and magic of black culture.…

— Blitberry

“The whiteness celebrated in Paris is Burning is not just any old brand of whiteness but rather that brutal imperial ruling-class capitalist patriarchal whiteness…

— Bell Hooks

Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open wound. Obsession…

— Marita Golden

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

— Junot Diaz

If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always white men who do that, and you don't…

— Isabel Allende

“In America the magazines in which one can frequently publish stories or poems about Negroes are very few, and most of these do not…

— Langston Hughes

I can't stop thinking about the devaluation of black life, and I find it seeping into everything I write.

— Jesmyn Ward