Aids Quote by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think, as a writer, sometimes you do worry, 'Am I just writing, or am I putting the burden of African-Americans on my shoulder…

— Angie Thomas

African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how,…

— Chris Abani

I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one reads.

— Derek Walcott

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors…

— Jesmyn Ward

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American…

— Ishmael Reed

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 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

African American writers and artists, by the very nature of what they do, will actually enhance or bring together people in a way that…

— Jerry Pinkney

Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and…

— Giles Foden

When I was a kid, I'd go to the African-American section in the bookstore, and I'd try and find African-American people I hadn't read…

— Colson Whitehead

Literature has been a treacherous site for black Americans because literary production has been so tied with the project of proving our humanity through…

— Glenn Ligon