Equality Quote by Curtis Mayfield

I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving…

— August Wilson

I write to tell the truth about the black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to offer a black woman's view of…

— Sonia Sanchez

I write about spirituality not so we get strong from within and achieve some state of nirvana and then distance ourselves from the real…

— Susan L. Taylor

I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

— Maya Angelou

As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Despite the obstacles of race and class, I was always taught that I could accomplish anything I set my mind to. African-American writers, for…

— Clarence Major

Representing young black girls and giving them hope and the light and letting them know that they can do anything is important to me…

— Storm Reid

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write…

— Bruce Springsteen

Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has all shaped…

— Lauren Beukes

I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I wrote about what I was going through at the time.

— Avril Lavigne

My family life and early political life - being exposed to the news constantly, being enrolled in an Afrocentric education program, and doing the…

— Baratunde Thurston