Difficult Quote by Paterson Joseph

There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.

— James Earl Jones

To be a black person is to come from a long bloodline of survivors and storytellers, with a resilience that people can't even comprehend.

— Lena Waithe

That existential crisis is something you rarely see portrayed by black characters; the idea that people think about their own existence and that they…

— Boots Riley

Black storytelling can be about anything, absolutely anything, and within that it can be as enriching, as complex, beautiful, ugly as anything else. We…

— Paterson Joseph

As long as I can remember, I saw myself as black. I was socially conditioned to discard that. It was an all-white town. I…

— Rachel Dolezal

The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself…

— Octavia Butler

I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place…

— Octavia Butler

To be Black is the greatest fiction of my life. Yet I'm still bound to its myth. I can't help but think about the…

— RaMell Ross

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

The way black people feel, especially, is if you're going to tell a black story, let it come from a real place.

— Algee Smith

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

I love that I get to play a black character who's not a stereotype, who is not afraid to be vulnerable, who comes from…

— Ncuti Gatwa