Black Quote by Marley Dias

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

“This Book is Dedicated to Black Girls Everywhere. You are Powerful. You are Beautiful. You are Loved.”

— Daniel José Older

Books were my first love.

— Maisie Peters

I read this book when I was young. It's about a black girl growing up in Heaven, Ohio. The cover has a black girl…

— Jamila Woods

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

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

'Black Beauty,' by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night for months.…

— Scott Turow

“Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement." from Mr.…

— Chris Van Allsburg

A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.

— Robert Aris Willmott

I think that the first book that made me think that I could try to be a writer - or that made me aware…

— Jesmyn Ward

The first book I really loved was 'Little Women' - I'd have given anything for Beth to have been allowed to live; I remember…

— Helen Oyeyemi

In the late 1990s, I wrote a book from the point of view of a young black woman who has barricaded herself in her…

— Susan Shreve