Genius Quote by Wallace Thurman

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published.…

— Walter Mosley

“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

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

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

— Langston Hughes

“considering how thorough-going was the capture of the minds of the Blacks, it is really not surprising that so many Negro scholars still faithfully…

— Chancellor Williams

“Shout out to all the Black writers who push the world forward by sharing the stories, lives, history, imaginations and magic of black culture.…

— Blitberry

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

But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long."…

— Langston Hughes

“The negro’s story may have started in this country with degradation, but triumph and prosperity would be his one day.”

— Colson Whitehead

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

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its…

— Romare Bearden

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