College Quote by Angie Thomas

I went to a predominantly white secondary school and experienced a lot of hate and racism.

— Jay Blades

My father is from Mississippi, and I heard stories of racial injustice my whole life.

— Omar Benson Miller

When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white classmates never…

— Jenny Zhang

“Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son".”

— David L. Cohn

I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.

— Kiese Laymon

I am a lifelong Mississippian. I remember Jim Crow, 'colored' and 'white' water fountains, and my mother's inability to try on a dress in…

— Mike Espy

I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.

— Chaske Spencer

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 grew silent and reserved as the nature of the world in which I lived became plain and undeniable; the bleakness of the future…

— Richard Wright

Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me,…

— LaToya Jackson

As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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