Black Quote by Henry Louis Gates

“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

Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our…

— Lee Siegel

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.

— Jacqueline Leo

As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone is a…

— James McBride

“Critics are important. They give us the reasons, knowingly or unknowingly, not to fall, slumber or deviate from our true purpose . If only…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

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

Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics?

— Cornel West

“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

Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and…

— Robert Genn

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

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