Bigger Quote by Toni Morrison

My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.

— Toni Morrison

I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am all those…

— Justin Simien

I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am all those…

— Justin Simien

As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Adults who loved and knew me, on many occasions sat me down and told me that I was black. As you could imagine, this…

— Shaun King

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

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

I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made…

— Eartha Kitt

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

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

— Tina Turner

As a Black woman and a Black person my experience has been very different. I have a deep love and connection for my country…

— Madeleine Madden

I never had a moment of realization about my blackness - I just was. Blackness was a central thread of my experience as a…

— Angela Rye