Black Quote by Jamaica Kincaid

I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself.

— John Darnielle

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 almost never write because I want something from my audience. Almost everything I've ever written, I've written because I feel like I have…

— Zoe Kazan

I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

— Maya Angelou

I became a writer out of the desire to express myself.

— Pankaj Kapur

People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the way I…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving…

— August Wilson

I don't need to tell myself that I'm black or that I'm proud of being black. I just am, and it just doesn't matter.

— Thundercat

I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for.

— Margaret Cho

I like to have something that makes me want to write. Otherwise, I'm just writing for the sake of it. I feel like if…

— Slowthai

I'm not writing for myself. I'm writing as an educator, I'm writing to stimulate others.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with…

— Gore Vidal