Black Quote by Dorian Missick

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American…

— Ishmael Reed

Black people created their own stereotype. Now its hard for me to be a educated young black man without being labeled as 'acting white.'

— Anonymous

“African-American writers with an independent vision are often consigned to obscurity. The white critics can only tolerate one black writer at a time, usually…

— Ishmael Reed

Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I…

— Langston Hughes

Because when you have all white men in the writers' room trying to tell the perspective of cultural appropriation or what it's like to…

— Lexi Underwood

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors…

— Jesmyn Ward

I think the stereotypes many black men are put under, even in the entertainment world, can sometimes have a dark or negative undertone.

— MNEK

The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce…

— Octavia E. Butler

We put stereotypes on ourselves. Everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just be who they…

— Donald Glover

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

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it…

— Alice Mattison

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