Black Quote by August Wilson

I write about spirituality not so we get strong from within and achieve some state of nirvana and then distance ourselves from the real…

— Susan L. Taylor

“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

I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

— Maya Angelou

I write to tell the truth about the black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to offer a black woman's view of…

— Sonia Sanchez

Despite the obstacles of race and class, I was always taught that I could accomplish anything I set my mind to. African-American writers, for…

— Clarence Major

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

Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important to me.

— Curtis Mayfield

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell…

— Andrew Solomon

I got into the business because I love writing. When it came down to finding my voice, which every writer has to take time…

— Lena Waithe

In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are…

— David Oyelowo

My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a…

— Michelle Singletary

I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

— August Wilson