A Quote by Kiese Laymon

I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.

Kiese Laymon

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Black Consider Mississippi Most Myself Writer

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Kiese Laymon
Writer
Born: August 15, 1974

In a weird way, I never wanted - I don't consider myself a very good writer. I consider myself okay; I don't consider myself great. There's Woody Allen and Aaron Sorkin. There's Quentin Tarantino. I'm not ever gonna be on that level. But I do consider myself a good filmmaker.

Sam Esmail

I always want to challenge myself as a writer. I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

Lena Waithe

I don't consider myself just a black man. I consider myself a brotha. I love my people.

Stephen A. Smith

I don't really consider myself a writer, but I am writing so I guess I'm a writer.

Meital Dohan

I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer.

Kim Edwards

Of course I'm a black writer... I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call "literature" is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche.

Toni Morrison

In some ways I consider myself more Chinese, because I live in San Francisco, which is becoming a predominantly Asian city. I avoid falling into the black-and-white dialectic in which most of America still seems trapped. I have always recognized that, as an American, I am in relationship with other parts of the world; that I have to measure myself against the Pacific, against Asia. Having to think of myself in relationship to that horizon has liberated me from the black-and-white checkerboard.

Richard Rodriguez

I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.

Mike Cernovich

I consider myself a Jewish writer - even if my characters frequently are not Jewish - in the same way, I guess, that I consider myself a Jewish man, even though I don't often attend shul.

Darin Strauss

I do consider myself a Norwegian writer, or a Scandinavian writer, as my family tree reaches into both Denmark and Sweden. I don't think about it, of course, when I am writing.

Per Petterson

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.

Alanis Morissette

I consider myself a Londoner first, and then I consider myself Brazilian before I consider myself English.

Kaya Scodelario

I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I follow along and take notes. Sometimes I throw in my two cents.

Anne Roiphe

These days I find myself wanting to avoid being pigeon-holed, ghettoized, held in a different category than other authors. And when people ask me if I'm a black writer, or just a writer who happens to be black, I tend to say that it's either a dumb question or a question which happens to be dumb.