Black Writer Quotes

“Black Beauty is not acknowledged, affirmed, or celebrated unless it is showcased on a non-Black body. We are the blueprint they publicly denounce and secretly covet. They will always be caricatures of our authenticity. Who are they without us?”
― Bethanee Epifani J. Bryant

“I revel in the beauty that God has given me of which there is no end.”
― Bethanee Epifani J. Bryant, My Quarter-of-a-Century Life Lessons:Building a Foundation for Success

“Come close, be my buddy, then after a while call me nigga - it won't affect our friendship one bit. But out of the blue if you walk up to me as a complete stranger and call me that, then you only deepen the wounds caused by white oppressors throughout human history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

“My black literary hero's and I had these two places in common. Harlem NYC, and Paris France.”
― Tim Storrs, Ripped Pages the unedited Writing of Tim Storrs