African American Authors


The Bluest Eye
The Color Purple
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Beloved
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Vanishing Half
The Hate U Give
Between the World and Me
Invisible Man
Song of Solomon
Becoming
The Underground Railroad
Kindred
Hair Love
The Water Dancer
The Rage of Innocence by Kristin HenningIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann JacobsTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonWomanist Bioethics by Wylin D. WilsonKindred by Octavia E. Butler
Black women writers
320 books — 21 voters


Abiola Abrams
When Africans were kidnapped, trafficked en masse and brutally dragged in chains to work camps in the “New World,” called plantations, we hid our deities and rituals in stories of saints, angels, and legendary characters. Our deities included a powerful cadre of orishas, abosom, lwas, álúsí, spirits, and god/desses. From South Africa to Sudan, Brazil to Cuba to even Indigenous Australia, we chant their names: Yemaya, Mami Wata, Atete, Iset, and Ala.
Abiola Abrams, African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy

Abiola Abrams
Some of us have been hiding, shrinking, betraying ourselves, faking the funk, and playing small for so long that we believe that we are small. That shrunken self is not you. That shrunken self is a persona you created to survive.
Abiola Abrams, African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy

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