Black Quote by Langston Hughes

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

— Langston Hughes

“In America the magazines in which one can frequently publish stories or poems about Negroes are very few, and most of these do not…

— Langston Hughes

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

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are…

— Audre Lorde

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

There's probably more of a struggle to get material and narratives published that really speak to black culture. And that has a lot to…

— Jerry Pinkney

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

— Anonymous

“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

There's a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don't know that other groups of people of color have that same…

— N. K. Jemisin

I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

But when I do book signings and personal appearances, the audiences are mostly white. Growing up here, I expected that and understand it. Black…

— George Pelecanos