Black Quote by Chris Rock

Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a…

— Wallace Thurman

I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of…

— August Wilson

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 feel like I'm put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is an expectation…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way.

— Will M Cook

Broadway musicals like 'Ain't Misbehavin',' 'Eubie' and 'Bubblin' Brown Sugar' depict blacks having a light, wonderful time and that was just not so for…

— Yolanda King

Although the civil-rights movement did a lot to change how black life was dramatized on the American stage in the fifties and sixties, white…

— Hilton Als

I am not defined as a black writer in the Caribbean, but as soon as I go to America or the U.K., my place…

— Derek Walcott

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

I don't think that everything on Broadway relates to us, and I think that's why we as black people don't always go to Broadway…

— Stephanie Mills

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

— Anonymous

. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to be somehow…

— August Wilson