African american Quote by Toni Morrison

Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't…

— Toni Morrison

The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or racist biases is dangerous. It promotes closed-mindedness and…

— Bell Hooks

I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.

— Ad Reinhardt

Literature has been a treacherous site for black Americans because literary production has been so tied with the project of proving our humanity through…

— Glenn Ligon

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't…

— Sherman Alexie

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

— Anonymous

Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.

— Nadine Gordimer

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.

— Dylan Moran

Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.

— George C. Wolfe

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are…

— Audre Lorde

“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

Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:…

— Brian Boyd