Black Authors


The Vanishing Half
The Hate U Give
Homegoing
Kindred
Beloved
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Between the World and Me
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
The Bluest Eye
The Color Purple
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Becoming
Such a Fun Age
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Americanah
Ashley C. Ford
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

Stalina Goodwin
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

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