American Quote by Jesmyn Ward

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 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

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

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

“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

Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I…

— Langston Hughes

I've had a somewhat typical experience in that many of the contemporary writers I was exposed to early on were white and often male.

— Laura van den Berg

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

— Anonymous

The writers who have been serious about recreating American literature have always been far and few between. What we do have at the end…

— Ana Castillo

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

Because when you have all white men in the writers' room trying to tell the perspective of cultural appropriation or what it's like to…

— Lexi Underwood

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