Black Quote by Tracee Ellis Ross

I think most people write from what they see in their own world, which is maybe why we so often see an African-American woman…

— Tika Sumpter

“She is a song written for someone else.”

— Jeyn Roberts

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

— Simone Missick

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”

— Virginia Woolf

“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

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for the…

— Tracie Podger

I doubted Black-ish , and I'll tell you why. Because it doesn't matter if a writer wrote it for you. He could've written it…

— Tracee Ellis Ross

“Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so.”

— Anna Bayes

“I speak, I speak, and truth at that. Writers are a curious breed: brooding, fickle, alternately loving and hating their work—and each other. You’re…

— Chila Woychik

I went over there to 'black-ish' to be a writer on the show, but Kenya Barris - for no obvious reason - asked me…

— Deon Cole

Every time I put a collection together I'd scrap it because there was no "meaning," until I wrote about the two black men -…

— Hilton Als

“If you’re dating a writer and they don’t write about you — whether it’s good or bad — then they don’t love you. They…

— Jamie Anne Royce