Black people Quote by Lena Waithe

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

— Maya Angelou

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

I feel like I'm put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is an expectation…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are…

— David Oyelowo

I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving…

— August Wilson

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

— 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

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

I write about spirituality not so we get strong from within and achieve some state of nirvana and then distance ourselves from the real…

— Susan L. Taylor

There are places and spaces for black writers to write about race as a central thing. It's important. We're still dealing with the remnants…

— Kwame Alexander