20 Inspiring Quotes from Black Writers

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“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.”

– Angela Davis

“Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.”

– June Jordan

“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”

– Lorraine Hansberry

“Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.”

– Alice Walker

“Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing.”

– Pearl Cleage

“Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.”

– Pearl Cleage

“I don’t want to be limited or ghettoized in any way.”

– Sista Soulja

“Sure you can do anything when talking or writing, it’s not like living when you can only do what you doing.”

– Sapphire

“If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”

– Toni Morrison

“It’s no use of talking unless people understand what you say.”

– Zora Neale Hurston

“Nobody’s as powerful as we make them out to be.”

– Alice Walker (The Third Life of Grange Copeland)

“Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

– James Baldwin (No Name in the Street)

“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”

– Zadie Smith (On Beauty)

“Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”

– Toni Morrison (Song of Solomon)

“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”

– Maya Angelou (The Heart of a Woman)

“Healing begins where the wound was made.”

– Alice Walker (The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart)

“To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.”

– Dorothy West (The Richer, the Poorer)

“You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you’ll never write.”

– Nikki Giovanni

“People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that’s a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.”

– Lucille Clifton

“A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.”

– Gwendolyn Brooks

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