Black community Quote by George C. Wolfe

Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated…

— Michelle Obama

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had…

— Richard Wright

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

I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

— Katori Hall

I'm really looking forward to developing just really fun, complex, interesting stories about people who happen to be black.

— Tracie Thoms

I don't want to pass because I can't stand insincerities and shams. I am just as much Negro as any of the others identified…

— Fredi Washington

I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I…

— Spike Lee

“Shout out to all the Black writers who push the world forward by sharing the stories, lives, history, imaginations and magic of black culture.…

— Blitberry

The way black people feel, especially, is if you're going to tell a black story, let it come from a real place.

— Algee Smith

I can't stop thinking about the devaluation of black life, and I find it seeping into everything I write.

— Jesmyn Ward

I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind.

— Common

I want black people to have a normal life, if it wasn't for that I would have given up by now. I go to…

— Vinicius Junior