Great Quote by Margot Lee Shetterly

There's a great book called 'Britain's Black Past' edited by Gretchen Gerzina. It has a myriad of stories and angles on black British history…

— Paterson Joseph

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I'm an old newspaper-man myself, but I quit because I found there was no money in old newspapers.

— Jack Benny

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled…

— Irwin Shaw

I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to…

— Brent Runyon

I think I've read all of W.E.B. Du Bois, which is a lot. He started off with comprehensive field work in Philadelphia, publishing a…

— Matthew Desmond

The magazines were born out of a need that my parents saw: that there were no magazines that really spoke to black people. 'Ebony'…

— Linda Johnson Rice

I published a bunch of my older books in e-book format with Open Road, which is great and has tons of hard to find…

— Rick Moody

Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture.…

— Tabitha Soren

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

For almost every novel I've written, I've read the daily newspaper of the time almost as if it were my current subscription. For 'Two…

— Thomas Mallon

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