About Quote by Tracie Thoms

In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are…

— David Oyelowo

I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

— Katori Hall

I just want to tell black stories.

— Daniel Kaluuya

I spent 12 years of my life writing stories without black people. That's insane to me. It's insane that I could have believed in…

— Tomi Adeyemi

Between school, homework, tests, and play time with my friends, I have worked my butt off to create this space where black girls' stories…

— Marley Dias

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

I'm all about black folks working together and progressing together.

— Lamman Rucker

In my perfect world, we'd have one black girl fantasy book every month. We need them, and we need fantasy stories about black boys…

— Tomi Adeyemi

I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying we don't have work for…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I want to see as many black professionals as possible.

— Orlando Jones

I'm very proud to be black, but I'm just as much black as I am white. But I want tell stories that everybody can…

— Shemar Moore

Black storytelling can be about anything, absolutely anything, and within that it can be as enriching, as complex, beautiful, ugly as anything else. We…

— Paterson Joseph