Being nice Quote by Cheryl Lynn

“The voice of a Black woman should always be HERSELF ... No edits - no erasure - no pressure - no expectations - no…

— Malebo Sephodi

I believe that the mainstream publishers, DC and Marvel, need to catch up as well. Out of the fifty-odd books that are published each…

— Marjorie M. Liu

As creators and as readers, we need to always be pushing it - by looking for the books, looking for the artists and people…

— Marjorie Liu

It has been very rare to see a black woman as a protagonist. And also as three-dimensional people - mathematicians, mothers, wives, complicated people,…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“This Book is Dedicated to Black Girls Everywhere. You are Powerful. You are Beautiful. You are Loved.”

— Daniel José Older

There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Black women come with all sorts of personalities. So it's time for media to wise up and show us in all of our complexity.

— Franchesca Ramsey

“The collective, orchestrated fury of Black women can move the whole world.”

— Brittney Cooper

We need to encourage black women to know that they are authors of their own destiny, that they have important stories to tell, and…

— Michaela Coel

After my first book, many of my readers came back to tell me that the female characters I had created were not strong enough.…

— Ravi Subramanian

“The book presents a broad world of women coming from all eras, countries, backgrounds, races, and ethnicities. They’re rabble-rousers from all sorts of disciplines:…

— Ann Shen

I'm trying to be what I want to see more of: Black women onscreen.

— KiKi Layne