Black Authors Quotes

“It is strange to both fit in everywhere and belong nowhere, to never feel completely at home outside of your own skin”
― Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Unpaved

“The fear of course is that in denying or refusing complicity in the marginalization of 'black' writers, I ended up on the very distant and very 'other' side of a line that is imaginary at best. I didn't write as an act of testimony or social indignation (though all writing in some way is just that) and I did not write out of a so-called family tradition of oral storytelling. I never tried to set anybody free, never tried to paint the next real and true picture of the life of my people, never had any people whose picture I knew well enough to paint. Perhaps if I had written in the time immediately following Reconstruction, I would have written to elevate the station of my fellow oppressed.
But the irony was beautiful. I was a victim of racism by virtue of my failing to acknowledge racial difference and by failing to have my art be defined as an exercise in racial self-expression. So, I would not be economically oppressed because of writing a book that fell in line with the very books I deemed racist. And I would have to wear the mask of the person I was expected to be.”
― Percival Everett, Erasure

“Children are like sponges, absorbing their parents' attitudes and behaviors towards money. It's crucial for parents to be mindful of their financial actions and lead by example.”
― Linsey Mills, Currency of Conversations: The Talk You've Been Waiting For About Money

“When parents openly communicate about money matters, they empower their children to develop a healthy understanding of financial concepts, fostering a positive relationship with money.”
― Linsey Mills, Teach Your Child About Money Through Play: 110+ Games/Activities, Tips, and Resources to Teach Kids Financial Literacy at an Early Age

“Children observe their parents' reactions during financial challenges. By demonstrating resilience, adaptability, and resourcefulness, parents can inspire their children to overcome financial obstacles with confidence.”
― Linsey Mills, Currency of Conversations: The Talk You've Been Waiting For About Money

“By instilling a sense of delayed gratification in their children, parents can teach them the importance of patience and long-term financial planning, preparing them for a prosperous future.”
― Linsey Mills, Currency of Conversations: The Talk You've Been Waiting For About Money

“The greatest act of revolution for any black woman is to put pen to paper with purpose.”
― Stalina Goodwin, Daughters of Zora: Affirmations for Black Women Writers

“For minorities and marginalized groups, representation matters, but access matters more.”
― Raven Jemison, More Than Representation: The Cheat Codes to Own Your Seat at the Table

“I pitied her, because she was all alone in a world full of people fixated on her, and that must be the loneliest place on Earth to be.”
― Emir Darlov, It's Just The Two Of Us Now: An Emir’s Oasis play by Emir Darlov

“You're a wave and a particle simultaneously everywhere and nowhere in my thoughts, collapsing into form only when I try to measure your feelings”
― Asha Walker, Limerence

“Practicing mindfulness can seem abstract at first. It certainly was to me. But what I’ve learned is that when we use the senses we have available, we create a shortcut to present-centered living. Because the body naturally rests in the here-and-now, it proves itself a useful tool in mindfulness.”
― Jor-El Caraballo, Meditations for Black Men: Ten Guided Meditations for the Body, Mind, and Spirit

“Black lives should not only matter when we are dead. We should matter while we are living.”
― Ahavel Aborishade

“My negritude is not a stone, its deafness hurled against the clamor of the day
my negritude is not a leukoma of dead liquid over the earth's dead eye
my negritude is neither tower nor cathedral
it takes root in the red flesh of the soil
it takes root in the ardent flesh of the sky
it breaks through opaque prostration with its upright patience.”
― Aimé Césaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land

“David saw the AI Revolution and online stock trading as potential solutions to the economic challenges faced by Black women and Black men. He genuinely believed that the reparations sought by Black people for the injustices of slavery and other crimes against their humanity are waiting patiently to be claimed in one place: Wall Street.”
― David L. Wadley

“he largest shareholder in L’Oreal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers had been the top girl for a while. After her father’s death Eustacia’s fortune jumped making her crack into the $100 billion club.

Didn’t they think she had anything better to do with her time? Eustacia bristled with annoyance.
No, she would not, (a) being rich was like being beautiful or smart if you have to tell someone you are you're probably not, (b) someone will always ask you for money.”
― Yvonna Russell, The Billionairess

“The largest shareholder in L’Oreal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers had been the top girl for a while. After her father’s death Eustacia’s fortune jumped making her crack into the $100 billion club.

Didn’t they think she had anything better to do with her time? Eustacia bristled with annoyance.
No, she would not, (a) being rich was like being beautiful or smart if you have to tell someone you are you're probably not, (b) someone will always ask you for money.”
― Yvonna Russell, The Billionairess

“When will we wake,
when will we see,
the real oppressors' hypocrisy?”
― Hagir Elsheikh, Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience

“They call us forgotten.
Dust in the breeze.
But how do you forget
the roots of the trees?”
― Hagir Elsheikh, Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience

“We are Kush.
We are Meroë.
But they won’t teach you this in school.
They won’t name the ancient rule,
They won’t tell you how far we reached.
Only how little we’re allowed to teach.”
― Hagir Elsheikh, Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience

“We are not myth.
We are the math and the original path.
They speak of Egypt, forget our kings.
They show you Giza, hide Meroë’s crown.
Where two hundred pyramids
still look down.”
― Hagir Elsheikh, Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience

“I am Sudan. And I do not beg.
I carry warriors in my legs.
I walk like a prophecy. I light like a flame.
I was never small, just wrongly named.
In every land, I stand tall.
You cannot exile what built it all.”
― Hagir Elsheikh, Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience

“Often, refugees think the worst is over as they arrive at their new homes, only to find new struggles
emerges under a different sun.”
― Hagir Elsheikh

“A border does not make one holy.
A passport does not make one pure.”
― Hagir Elsheikh, Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience

“Don’t do that.  I want to see all of you.  You are beautiful; don’t ever cover up your beauty.”
-Chance, Down South With A Baddie...”
― Jay Savage

“What if the work resisted restraint because it was not meant to be restrained? What if she had very nearly everything she needed for the book to take shape, except for the courage to let it find its own shape? She stopped wrestling with the work so she could dance with it instead. I watched the wheels turn right in front of me, and I saw in Austin a mind simultaneously at work and play. I saw a writer doing their job and a woman remembering who the hell she was and what she wanted.”
― Ashley C. Ford, Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-possession

“To the women that carried my spiritual bones when my own wrists were too loose, my mama. I use the word women because she is a lot of women in one.”
― Tsholofelo Lehaha, In the midst of the womb

“I always questioned myself if we were ever like birds in our hearts. Were feelings ever set back home at the end of the day? I grew up to learn that we do have homes inside of us. It is all up to us to fly our feelings home.”
― Tsholofelo Lehaha

“My heart has turned black bitumen out of the sadness, but I know it will never burn out. I will never have cinders of you.”
― Tsholofelo Lehaha, In the midst of the womb

“African-American writers with an independent vision are often consigned to obscurity. The white critics can only tolerate one black writer at a time, usually someone who subscribes to their values, and the black critics demand that they respect the official cultural trend of the moment.”
― Ishmael Reed, Black No More

“The dimly lit room only has light from an annoying alarm clock, which reminds us that it will soon be time for work.

I hit the rest button again as the thought creeps into our heads that perhaps a sick day might be in order.”
― Stephen Q. Gray