Colour Quote by Jupiter Hammon

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration and the color work became more of a critique of society.

— Martin Parr

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

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

— Langston Hughes

If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always white men who do that, and you don't…

— Isabel Allende

White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.

— Ntozake Shange

When I went to the Association [ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] I learned a few things by observation. One of…

— Ella Baker

“The Gray soldiers prowl the cities ensuring order, ensuring obedience to the hierarchy. The Whites arbitrate their justice and push their philosophy. Pinks pleasure…

— Pierce Brown

When I think of the Harlem Renaissance, I think of bright colors, and bold, dynamic art. African American artists of the period were, in…

— Nikki Grimes

“All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver, and all those figures I looked upon as…

— Walter Dean Myers

I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'

— Junot Diaz

“I write to breath life back into memory to remind African-Americans of our rich and textured history. I also see myself as a "root,"…

— Bernice L. McFadden

“Narratives of racial exceptionality obscure the reality of ongoing institutional white control while reinforcing ideologies of individualism and meritocracy. They also do whites a…

— Robin DiAngelo