“I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.”
- Alice Walker

Black Women Writers/Muses

Alice Walker

Alexis De Veaux

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Angela Flournoy

Ann Petry

Angela Davis

asha bandele

Ashley Ford

Assata Shakur

Audre Lorde

Ayobami Adebayo

Barbara Ransby

Barbara Smith

Beverly Smith

Bassey Ikpi

bell hooks

Bernice McFadden

Bernadine Evaristo

Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Britt Bennett

Brittney Cooper

Buchi Emecheta

Beverly Jenkins

Candice Iloh

Celeste O. Norfleet

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Christina Sharpe

Claudia Rankine

Danielle Evans

Deesha Philyaw

Dorothy West

Edwidge Danticat

Elaine Brown

Ella Baker

Elizabeth Acevedo

Eve Ewing

Fannie Lou Hamer

Feminista Jones

Flora Nwapa

Frances Harper

Gayl Jones

Gloria Naylor

Gwendolyn Brooks

Harriet Tubman

Helen Oyeyemi

Ibi Zoboi

Ida B Wells

Imani Perry

Imbolo Mbue

Isabel Wilkerson

Issa Rae

Iyanla Vanzant

J California Cooper

Jacqueline Woodson

Jamaica Kincaid

Janet Mock

Jasmine Guillory

Jenna Wortham

Jessica B. Harris

Jesmyn Ward

Jewelle Gomez

Joan Morgan

Junauda Petrus

June Jordan

Kaitlyn Greenidge

LA Banks

Ladee Hubbard

Lorraine Hansberry

Lucille Clifton

Luvvie Ajayi

Mahogany Browne

Mariame Kaba

Mary Church Terell

Maya Angelou

Maryse conde

Michelle Alexander

Morgan Parker

Naomi Jackson

Nalo Hopkinson

Nannie Helen Burroughs

Natasha Tarpley

Nicola Yoon

Nicole Dennis Benn

Nikki Giovanni

Nikki Finney

NK Jemisin

Ntozake Shange

Octavia Butler

Olive Morris

Pamela Sneed

Patricia Hill Collins

Paule Marshall

Pearl Cleage

Queen Afua

Renee Watson

Rita Dove

Rita Williams-Garcia

Roxane Gay

Saadiya Hartman

Safiya Bukhari

Sapphire

Samantha Irby

Sarah M. Broom

Shirley Chisholm

Simone White

Sister Souljah

Sonia Sanchez

Sojourner Truth

Sonia Sanchez

Sylvia Wynter

Tai Freedom Ford

Tamura Lomax

Tanarive Due

Tayari Jones

Terry Mcmillan

Tiphanie Yanique

Tomi Adeyemi

Toni Cade Bambara

Toni Morrison

Tracy K. Smith

Tressie McMillan Cottom

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Veronica Chambers

Verta Mae

Wanda Coleman

Yaa Gyasi

Yrsa Daley-Ward

Zadie Smith

Zane

Zetta Elliot

Zinzi Clemmons

Zora Neale Hurston

“"When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young,”
- Maya Angelou

“I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.” - Alice Walker

Black Women Writers/Muses

“"When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young,” - Maya Angelou

“I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.”
- Alice Walker

“"When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young,”
- Maya Angelou