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I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what…

— Colson Whitehead

There are places and spaces for black writers to write about race as a central thing. It's important. We're still dealing with the remnants…

— Kwame Alexander

I'm not saying I have to write a book that's ten times better than my counterparts, but I do think that I have to…

— Jesmyn Ward

I'm conscious of race whenever I'm writing, just as I'm conscious of class, religion, human psychology, politics — everything that makes up the human…

— Dwayne McDuffie

Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't…

— Toni Morrison

“Throughout my life as I’ve sought to become a published writer of speculative fiction, my strongest detractors and discouragers have been other African Americans.…

— N.K. Jemisin

But when I do book signings and personal appearances, the audiences are mostly white. Growing up here, I expected that and understand it. Black…

— George Pelecanos

In Britain, we need to start presenting the option of being a writer in front of black women. We need to present the idea…

— Michaela Coel

I'm one of the few Black writers, or African American writers, who managed to work my way through the system so that it has…

— James McBride

I've had frank conversations with theaters who say, 'We love your play, but we've already done a play by another black person this year,'…

— Katori Hall

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

— Anonymous

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