5 Good Quotes by Black Writers
When there is overwhelming uncertainty, a cause to fight for or even a grandeur moment of bliss, we search for the right words to get us through it. Sometimes a phrase helps us believe in what weโre doing, how weโre feeling and offers a side of personal perspective that we didnโt realize was there. Black womxn writers have always stepped up to be the voice of aggression, loathing, honesty and compassion of the past, present and future generations. They write what they know.
- AMANDA GORMAN, AMERICAN POET AND NATIONAL YOUTH POET LAUREATE
โYou wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.โ
- TONI MORRISON, AMERICAN NOVELIST
*photo via The New Yorker
โYou are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.โ
- ZADIE SMITH, ENGLISH NOVELIST AND ESSAYIST
*photo credit: Dominique Nabokov / Baltimore Sun
โShe was smart enough to want more but tired enough to accept the way things were.โ
- ROXANE GAY, AMERICAN WRITER