African american Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

Michael Dyson is popular amongst most blacks because he uses his pedestal as an 'educated' man to justify blacks' rage and hatred and never…

— Jesse Lee Peterson

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

'Ebony's Power 100 list highlights African-Americans who exemplify brilliance in the fields of entertainment, arts, business and others.

— Linda Johnson Rice

This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to life a…

— Werner Sollors

I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He singled-handedly revolutionized…

— Raoul Peck

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

— Wilbur Smith

The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.

— Bobby Seale

I stumbled upon Charles White purely by chance while looking through a book 'Great Negroes, Past and Present' in the library at Forty-Ninth Street…

— Kerry James Marshall

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

“(On Barack Obama) "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean,…

— Joe Biden

“Whatever Obama’s other triumphs, arguably his greatest has been an expansion of the black imagination to encompass this: the idea that a man can…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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