Black americans Quote by Glenn Ligon

Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't…

— Toni Morrison

Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.

— Nadine Gordimer

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

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are…

— Audre Lorde

“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

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“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

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

— Anonymous

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

Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a…

— Wallace Thurman

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

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