Black Quote by Deon Cole

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

— Anonymous

I'm one of the few Black writers, or African American writers, who managed to work my way through the system so that it has…

— James McBride

There's some places where it will be a white person telling you that they can write for Black people better than you can. That's…

— Janelle James

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

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 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

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

In Britain, we need to start presenting the option of being a writer in front of black women. We need to present the idea…

— Michaela Coel

But when I do book signings and personal appearances, the audiences are mostly white. Growing up here, I expected that and understand it. Black…

— George Pelecanos

I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one reads.

— Derek Walcott

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

“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