Black Authors Quotes

#1. That old man ... had my division massacred at Gettysburg!

George Pickett

#2. Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.

Robert Black

#3. A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

Gertrude Stein

#4. It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you can do with natural hair

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#5. Fool! Nothing but black ink runs through my veins!

Hiromu Arakawa

#6. I don't care about the genre so much. I'm good with horror, but I like other genres, too.

Bruce Campbell

#7. I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Stephen Carter

#8. Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out this straightness. You're always battling to make your hair do what it wasn't meant to do.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#9. This book is dedicated to every woman who has ever felt self-conscious about her size. Outer beauty comes in all sizes, shapes, heights, ages, and colors. And inner beauty will always shine through, no matter what the packaging.

Raynetta Manees

#10. A life filled with excuses is defeated, unproductive, and miserable.

Stephanie Lahart

#11. She wore heavy sandals, with socks. No kid in the entire state of Mississippi wore black socks in the summer. Shoot, if I wasn't standing smack-dab in the middle of the library, I wouldn't be wearing shoes.

Augusta Scattergood

#12. Everything in life has its price, and often the heaviest prices we pay are not in terms of money.

Raynetta Manees

#13. It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'

Jesmyn Ward

#14. The road lay long and black ahead of them and the heat was coming now through the thin soles of their shoes. There were young beans pushing up from the dry brown fields, tiny rows of green sprigs that stretched away in the distance.

Larry Brown

#15. In the business world, there is no gray. Either you are black, or you are white-washed.

Sameer Kamat

#16. At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.

Edward P. Jones

#17. I loved going to the library. It was the first time I ever saw Black newspapers and magazines like JET, Ebony, the Baltimore Afro-American, or the Chicago Defender. And I'll never forget my librarian.

John Lewis

#18. Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.

Leslie Fiedler

#19. For me I have learned to enjoy everything, especially performing live, so much more. I used to get horrible stage fright when I was younger and today and just love to sing for anyone who still turns up at my shows!

Olivia Newton-John

#20. What are you doing here?"Lady Vickers asked, turning her frosty glare to Sebastian.
"Exactly what you think, my lady," he said.

Julia Quinn

#21. People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.

Vanessa Mae

#22. Sulphurous wind gusted in his wake; the dust of the street swirled and the folds of his black coat flapped against his thin body.

A.F. Stewart

#23. The universe gives to those who ask without favor. The electric plug which connects you is desire.

Walter Russell

#24. The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

Geezer Butler

#25. Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process
it is, after all, black magic.

Edward Albee