Activism Quote by Angie Thomas

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.

— Wole Soyinka

I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.

— Randall Robinson

A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the…

— Cherrie Moraga

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can be written…

— Wole Soyinka

To call someone like me a writer-activist suggests that it's not the job of a writer to write about the society in which they…

— Arundhati Roy

Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.

— Philippe Sollers

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

— Anonymous

Writing is a political instrument.

— James A. Baldwin

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

— Meridel Le Sueur

Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to…

— Aberjhani

Writing is an antisocial act.

— Martha Grimes

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

— Alice Childress