Ask me Quote by Colson Whitehead

When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is some kind…

— Rumaan Alam

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

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

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

— Anonymous

“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

I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.

— Kiese Laymon

Typically, there's this perspective among writers - and black writers: there's this idea that there is one person - and maybe beyond writers -…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published.…

— Walter Mosley

I believe that a lot of minority writers stress about whether they get pigeonholed in writing about identity stuff, like you can't write about…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are…

— Audre Lorde

I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.

— Katori Hall