Books Quote by David L. Cohn

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality. --Richard Wright to William Faulkner”

— Richard Wright

“During the racial confrontations of the 1960s, An American Dilemma encountered rising criticism from activists and scholars who disputed Myrdal's optimism about white liberalism,…

— James T. Patterson

“This book is about racial identity, something most people who are not white take for granted. They come to it early, feel it strongly,…

— Jared Taylor

“the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“I write to breath life back into memory to remind African-Americans of our rich and textured history. I also see myself as a "root,"…

— Bernice L. McFadden

The worst kind of novel is one that blames other people for the racial problem in order to make the reader feel good about…

— George Pelecanos

“I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know that blacks…

— Endesha Ida Mae Holland

“Responding to Wright’s critique, Hurston claimed that she had wanted at long last to write a black novel, and “not a treatise on sociology.”…

— Zora Neale Hurston

This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to life a…

— Werner Sollors

“They try to strike terror in Southern mothers, lest their children grow up to fall in love with Negroes. If they didn’t make an…

— Harper Lee

“He was away in a mystery, locked in the enigma that young Southern Black boys start to unravel, start to try to unravel, from…

— Maya Angelou

“I grew silent and reserved as the nature of the world in which I lived became plain and undeniable; the bleakness of the future…

— Richard Wright