African american Quote by Tika Sumpter

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for…

— Mara Brock Akil

Having a Black woman write words for another Black woman, there is innateness in that, there is a knowing in that.

— Simone Missick

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

— Maya Angelou

I think, as a writer, sometimes you do worry, 'Am I just writing, or am I putting the burden of African-Americans on my shoulder…

— Angie Thomas

My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a…

— Michelle Singletary

There's some places where it will be a white person telling you that they can write for Black people better than you can. That's…

— Janelle James

Typically, there's this perspective among writers - and black writers: there's this idea that there is one person - and maybe beyond writers -…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female.…

— Toni Morrison

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors…

— Jesmyn Ward

I'm one of the few Black writers, or African American writers, who managed to work my way through the system so that it has…

— James McBride

“African-American writers with an independent vision are often consigned to obscurity. The white critics can only tolerate one black writer at a time, usually…

— Ishmael Reed