African American Fiction Quotes

#1. Trust her heart, Assefa, and believe in yourself. No matter the challenge, no matter the foe, be brave, be wise, be the undefeated Mngwa of lore.

N.D. Jones

#2. He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only knew that they were empty.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#3. Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn't in vain, he was able to justify his presence.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#4. The trick set me up. It's that simple.

Shadez

#5. ...forever meant different things to people at different times. They could imagine what infinity looked and felt like as much as they wanted, but could never truly grasp its meaning nor bear its full weight.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#6. Mayor Walmsley is using the typical Jim Crow manipulation tactics to deflect the blame and guilt. He's a classic racist politician with an ulterior motive," says Ora.

Shaune Bordere

#7. When he spoke of love, it was in the manner of someone who can recite a phrase in a foreign language but has no idea what it means. He only knows that it sounds pretty.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#8. You're an incredible woman, Lela. I would battle a thousand Terrademons to reach your heart. But I cannot challenge or defeat an enemy that's already dead. I cannot fight for a heart that doesn't want to be won.

N.D. Jones

#9. Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#10. Live life to the fullest and never forget the people that supported you along the way.

Dorothy W. Cosey

#11. A tightrope walker uncertain if he could make it to the other side probably would not. A race car driver wondering if he was taking a turn too fast was likely to lose control. If a man feared death, whether his own or the taking of another's, death would surely come calling.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#12. You and that amazing body of yours will be the cause of some too-appreciative witch's death. Maybe two witches." Or a dozen, her fire spirit hissed.

N.D. Jones

#13. Kids without dads are desperate and jealous. Those with dads can be uppity and sharp.

Shawn Stewart Ruff

#14. It would be impossible to think it's just about sex with a woman like you. You demand more without even trying. I'm set on giving you more. Sex is only an introduction- Amon Mikende

AlTonya Washington

#15. My ultimate authority would be the school librarian Mrs. Greenbacher.

Shawn Stewart Ruff

#16. It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#17. Easy, Sage, you have no idea. I just agreed to betray my marriage vows, my husband, and my beating heart.

N.D. Jones

#18. We all have scars. Just because mine are hidden doesn't make them any less painful.

Nicki Salcedo

#19. Entering the foyer, Royale already decided that he would thank Shake once more for being by his side at Keena's recital. But she stunned him by eagerly waiting for him just like old times - on her knees wearing only a collar and a leash.

S.B. Redd

#20. Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can.

Gloria Mallette

#21. Guilt doesn't follow the rules of time. Most things fade with time, regret, eyesight, memories. But guilt feeds on time, and as it feeds, it grows, and when it runs out of time, it begins to gnaw on the guilty.

J.D. Mason

#22. Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#23. His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led him in and out of quite a few bedroom doors.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#24. I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

Ralph Ellison

#25. Pastor McFucking Bride this ... Pastor McFucking Bride that. Fuck him!

S.B. Redd

#26. And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#27. My teeth ache, my gums hurt, and my cat is tearing me apart, wanting you in every way imaginable. Your body. Your magic. Your fire spirit. Your blood.

N.D. Jones

#28. Once you break someone's heart, you are forever its master.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#29. There were many tomorrows to be lived through his children. He could only hope that they would face them more courageously than he had, that his mistakes would serve as warning signs rather than crutches to lean on.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#30. On occasion we stumble upon what seems to be a truth. Compared to the surrounding blackness, it sparkles and dazzles our eyes. But are these actually truths? Are our eyes really feasting upon light? Or just patches of grey?

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#31. It was his experience that life worked under the same guidelines as a capitalistic society. In order to get what you wanted, it was usually necessary to give up something in return. Sometimes gaining what you defined as everything meant losing what you most needed.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#32. See, you don't wanna be a Jew. Too much work--there's a lot of holidays but it's even more work. It's sanctioned oppression, it's God's tyranny.

Shawn Stewart Ruff

#33. I took one look at him, my mouth started watering and my panties moistened with thick fluid as if he had touched my sensation and made me instantaneously combust.

Siva D.

#34. It's fair to say that white America wouldn't have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as 'serious.'

Joe Haldeman

#35. Time had taught him that whether his sins were pardoned or left unforgiven, they would remain committed. Tomorrow he would hopefully choose wiser, with a stronger measure of compassion.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#36. Was love ever easy for anyone? If less complicated, would this make it less appreciated? Perhaps love was difficult for good reason. Perhaps everything on God's green earth was the result of a flawless plan, even that which seemed most muddled.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.