About Quote by James Earl Jones

That existential crisis is something you rarely see portrayed by black characters; the idea that people think about their own existence and that they…

— Boots Riley

Black storytelling can be about anything, absolutely anything, and within that it can be as enriching, as complex, beautiful, ugly as anything else. We…

— Paterson Joseph

To be a black person is to come from a long bloodline of survivors and storytellers, with a resilience that people can't even comprehend.

— Lena Waithe

There was nothing around me that would have given me heroes who happened to be Black. And I don't think anybody can understand how…

— Paterson Joseph

I didn't want to write a 'black' book because black characters are a tough sell.

— Christopher Priest

A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to work... and…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

There's not one black narrative. There's not one way to be black.

— Yvonne Orji

There is an appetite for things that are different and a story with Black characters that's going to appeal to a lot of people.

— Cord Jefferson

We have to understand and explain to each other what blackness is.

— Michael Eric Dyson

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

When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a wide range…

— Kerry James Marshall

When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a wide range…

— Kerry James Marshall