151 Quotes About African-american-authors

The objective of stereotypes is not to reflect or represent a reality but to function as a disguise, or mystification, of objective social relations.

Any woman with kinky textured hair - can wear it, love it and manage it. She only needs the right tools, inspiration and motivation.

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

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

Inside, I screamed for help but the words knew better than to escape my lips.

VOA no longer felt like a sanctuary but rather a mirage and we were desert wanderers.

Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream.

He was a glance from God.

You can take away my anger, my fear, my fury, even my pain, but I could never live with myself if I’m not the one to bring that demon to justice. You’re all the family I have left, Serwa, and I pledged myself to you when I was a man-child of twenty-one years. Now, as a man of centuries, that responsibility hasn’t changed. If anything, it’s only gotten stronger.