Black girl Quote by Marley Dias

I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main…

— Marley Dias

I'm really looking forward to developing just really fun, complex, interesting stories about people who happen to be black.

— Tracie Thoms

It was the desire to see black girls and our experiences in the books that I was given to read at school that forced…

— Marley Dias

I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them.

— Katori Hall

I've been writing stories all my life. My very first story had two little black girls riding horses. They were both me, too, so…

— Tomi Adeyemi

I think now I get to create and inspire more young black girls to continue doing what they love and reach for the stars.

— Marsai Martin

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 always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

— Katori Hall

I wasn't seeing black girls in the books I was assigned to read at my school. I was tired of only reading about white…

— Marley Dias

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

My peers at the time: you know, young black kids from off the streets of Harlem, having these conversations with me in my small,…

— Kehinde Wiley

Representing young black girls and giving them hope and the light and letting them know that they can do anything is important to me…

— Storm Reid