Black Quote by Kiese Laymon

My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a…

— Michelle Singletary

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

I think, as a writer, sometimes you do worry, 'Am I just writing, or am I putting the burden of African-Americans on my shoulder…

— Angie Thomas

I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.

— Kiese Laymon

I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

— Maya Angelou

“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

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

You have to be accountable for what you do.

— Too Short

I'm one of the few Black writers, or African American writers, who managed to work my way through the system so that it has…

— James McBride

At some point along the way, I stopped being a writer, and I became a black writer. I never used to be a black…

— Christopher Priest

“To be accountable means that we are willing to be responsible to another person for our behavior and it implies a level of submission…

— Wayde Goodall

You aren't accountable to anyone, teachers or family but to yourself. Make sure your surrounding s are clean in all aspects

— Vinod Rai