Black Quote by Octavia Butler

Black people didn't start coming to see me until 1982. I'd just started doing Delbert, and suddenly my world changed. I started doing black-centred…

— Lenny Henry

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

I spent 12 years of my life writing stories without black people. That's insane to me. It's insane that I could have believed in…

— Tomi Adeyemi

There were many African Americans - many, many stories similar to my story.

— Claudette Colvin

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I…

— Sidney Poitier

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

— Anonymous

I didn't want to write a 'black' book because black characters are a tough sell.

— Christopher Priest

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

There was nothing around me that would have given me heroes who happened to be Black. And I don't think anybody can understand how…

— Paterson Joseph

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

A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to work... and…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black women -…

— Amandla Stenberg