Books By Black Authors Quotes & Sayings

I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know that blacks had done any great things. I was always conscious of my inferiority and I always remembered my place - until the Civil Rights Movement came to the town where I was born and grew up. — Endesha Ida Mae Holland

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

To behold the day-break!
The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
The air tastes good to my palate. — Walt Whitman

The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

We are the farmers of the future. If we desire all the gifts of God, if we seek to win the Golden Crown, we can't just sit back and watch. We have to make it happen. — Chris Heimerdinger

Man or woman, what did it matter who he slept with, and why did people think it was any of their business? — Felice Stevens

And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical.
("How to Write with Style". Essay, 1985) — Kurt Vonnegut

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

Whatever happens, never happens by itself. — Sally Rand

I never realized that grief and self-pity weren't the same thing. I thought grieving was what I was doing all this time I had been feeling sorry for myself, but it wasn't. So for the first time in nearly three years, I let myself grieve. — Katja Millay

Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am anti-institutional. — Aleksandra Mir

Once in a life time deals come around about every three weeks or so. — Robert G. Allen

Sometimes there is no comfort, only the knowledge that the worst has happened — Ashley Gardner

I love so many books and authors that it's hard to name just a few, but I'm always particularly excited when new books by Alice Hoffman, John Crowley, Joanne Harris, Elizabeth Knox, and Patricia McKillip come out. (And, of course, books by Ellen [Kushner], and Holly [Black], and the rest of the Bordertown crew!) I'm impatiently looking forward to Susanna Clarke's next book too.
Aside from writing and reading, my favorite things to do are paint, walk in the countryside with my dog, and listen to music
especially when it's live and it's played by friends. Fortunately there's a lot of live music where I live. — Terri Windling

You have to know that death is only a step we have to take to reach the other world and live, only in a different way. — Marina Nemat

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one. — Merle Travis

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