Everything Quote by Jesmyn Ward

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.

— August Wilson

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

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

I spent 12 years of my life writing stories without black people. That's insane to me. It's insane that I could have believed in…

— Tomi Adeyemi

I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

— Katori Hall

I've been in movement work since I was 16 years old. Black Lives Matter becomes an important part of the story, but it's not…

— Patrisse Cullors

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

There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what…

— Colson Whitehead

When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark secret; I'm…

— Charles Barkley

To be Black is the greatest fiction of my life. Yet I'm still bound to its myth. I can't help but think about the…

— RaMell Ross

A life is black, whiten it as you will.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin