Autobiography Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

— Sidney Poitier

“I write to breath life back into memory to remind African-Americans of our rich and textured history. I also see myself as a "root,"…

— Bernice L. McFadden

“If only I were articulate to paint in the frail medium of words what I see and know and possess incorporated in my consciousness…

— Jack London

There's a lot of material from my life in my books, but they're not really autobiographical, in the sense that they're not about my…

— Sigrid Nunez

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

— Ricky Hatton

I've been asked to write my autobiography, but I've not been interested.

— Shaun Ryder

The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the jumping-off place…

— Maya Angelou

For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art,…

— John Edgar Wideman

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

— Langston Hughes

My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.

— Kola Boof

When I grew up, my race was not a thing. My identity was in my class. It was not about colour on my estate.

— Michaela Coel

I didn't want to sugarcoat anything. I wanted to make an honest story. Of course, to write a real autobiography, you've got to tell…

— Superstar Billy Graham