Casting Quote by Ishmael Reed

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

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

When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white classmates never…

— Jenny Zhang

There's a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don't know that other groups of people of color have that same…

— N. K. Jemisin

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

— Henry Rollins

“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

I felt like I could never write nonfiction, because I would have to spend so many pages explaining my ethnic background, and that wasn't…

— Michelle Zauner

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

— Anonymous

I'm not saying I have to write a book that's ten times better than my counterparts, but I do think that I have to…

— Jesmyn Ward

When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in the story…

— Jeff Feuerzeig

I feel like I'm put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is an expectation…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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