Because Quote by Christopher Priest

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

— Anonymous

Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to write about…

— Harlan Coben

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

— James Earl Jones

Sometimes even when the book is over I dont know whos good and whos bad. Its really more interesting, I think, to write about…

— Harlan Coben

There is an appetite for things that are different and a story with Black characters that's going to appeal to a lot of people.

— Cord Jefferson

There aren't many children's books about black characters that are just going on adventures. My library has over 2,000 children's books in it, and…

— Martellus Bennett

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.

— Dylan Moran

The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself…

— Octavia Butler

I wasn't seeing black girls in the books I was assigned to read at my school. I was tired of only reading about white…

— Marley Dias

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 had a lot of different reasons for writing the book, but at its core was the desire to write for black teenage girls…

— Tomi Adeyemi

Most writers stick to what they know. The black experience is our experience, so it's not that challenging for us. That's why sometimes you'll…

— Lena Waithe