Black Quote by Kiese Laymon

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which…

— Stanley Crouch

I think reading about black girls if you are a black girl is important. And for those who don't like to read, seeing yourself…

— Marley Dias

I'll start by saying that "Fifty Shades of Grey:" It's like I don't have. an elicit confused relationship to my sexuality. So I don't…

— Lena Dunham

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the…

— Audre Lorde

I read everything and anything related to being queer. I found solace in reading authors like Audre Lorde and bell hooks, who would become…

— Patrisse Cullors

Books by women, people of color, LGBTQ authors, differently abled people, and non-Americans are a great way of broadening horizons and building empathy.

— Celeste Ng

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

— Maurice Sendak

The book Love and Trouble is asserting that sexuality lives inside us, and in the culture, and in the people who do things to…

— Claire Dederer

Every time I put a collection together I'd scrap it because there was no "meaning," until I wrote about the two black men -…

— Hilton Als

I couldn't imagine a book with many characters in it and one of them not being gay. It would have felt like a glaring…

— Ayana Mathis

I already optioned a book called The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. I also like The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill. And I…

— Viola Davis

In my perfect world, we'd have one black girl fantasy book every month. We need them, and we need fantasy stories about black boys…

— Tomi Adeyemi