Writing Quote by Tinie Tempah

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

— Jacob Lawrence

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published.…

— Walter Mosley

Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a…

— Wallace Thurman

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

“Shout out to all the Black writers who push the world forward by sharing the stories, lives, history, imaginations and magic of black culture.…

— Blitberry

I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook,…

— Joe Biden

“Are you kidding me?' Shan asked, slightly drunk, slightly dramatic, and now sitting yoga style on the floor. 'You can't write an honest novel…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Throughout my life as I’ve sought to become a published writer of speculative fiction, my strongest detractors and discouragers have been other African Americans.…

— N.K. Jemisin

“I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it…

— Bell Hooks

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

These days I find myself wanting to avoid being pigeon-holed, ghettoized, held in a different category than other authors. And when people ask me…

— Colson Whitehead

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black…

— Ray Stannard Baker