African american Quote by Teju Cole

Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm…

— Teju Cole

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as…

— James Welch

As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.

— Peter Temple

I like the labels because I think they tell my story in a very concise way: gay, Latino. I think the responsibility that comes…

— Richard Blanco

I don't really care that much about genre labels. I tend to write across a variety of different genres.

— Ken Liu

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

— Jonathan Coe

I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of…

— Dinaw Mengestu

I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but…

— Isabel Allende

When I worked as an editor, I read new novels being published in India every few days. They excited me tremendously for the first…

— Karan Mahajan

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

— Daniel Alarcon

the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.

— David Levithan

Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we…

— Charles de Lint