America Quote by August Wilson

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

— August Wilson

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

— Jesmyn Ward

I spent 12 years of my life writing stories without black people. That's insane to me. It's insane that I could have believed in…

— Tomi Adeyemi

Black lives matter just like any other life.

— Chris Gayle

There is a multitude of experiences that make up the black experience.

— Chance The Rapper

I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud…

— Malcolm X

There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.

— James Earl Jones

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 speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

— Maya Angelou

I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving…

— August Wilson

We don't often truly consider the embeddedness of black folks in the American imaginary. America would not exist in its current form without the…

— RaMell Ross

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