Accused Quote by Judith Krug

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He…

— Leslie Fiedler

There's always been really interesting, diverse black voices talking and arguing and counterpointing.

— Kevin Young

It has been very rare to see a black woman as a protagonist. And also as three-dimensional people - mathematicians, mothers, wives, complicated people,…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

The liberal-run institution of journalism does not allow probing of real problems facing black people. That is prohibited. It might lead to actual solutions.…

— Jason Whitlock

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

— Anonymous

I was challenged to a fistfight by Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times writer, who is part of a feminist clique…

— Ishmael Reed

“A black woman making art is a disruptive act. Every story that I tell as a woman is a political act, even if I…

— Ava DuVernay

Even Toni Morrison claiming Bill Clinton as 'black' could not prepare us for the election of America's first undeniably black president, Barack Obama.

— Kevin Young

“I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it…

— Bell Hooks

“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

The black woman as a concept has an identity largely based on archaic tropes. This same woman as reality, however, exists at the unfortunate…

— Jerrika Hinton

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