Brilliant Quote by Ishmael Reed

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

“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 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

It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle.

— Jess Row

There are places and spaces for black writers to write about race as a central thing. It's important. We're still dealing with the remnants…

— Kwame Alexander

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

In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are…

— David Oyelowo

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

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

— Anonymous

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

I think a lot of times stereotypes come when there are disconnected white writers who maybe have two or three black friends, and they…

— Dorian Missick

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