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Angela Flournoy
12 quotes
“No outside pressure could live up to the pressure I’ve always put on myself as a writer…”
Angela Flournoy (born 1985) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On having so much success with her first endeavor in “Angela Flournoy: How I Write” in The Writer (2016 Aug 12)
“Any realistic depiction of Detroit should include the blight and frustration that come with living there, but it should also show regular people experiencing joy.”
Angela Flournoy (born 1985) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On writing about Detroit in “An Interview with Angela Flournoy” in American Short Fiction (2015 Nov 10)
“I don’t think I need to succeed so that the race can succeed. We’ve seen that. We’ve been succeeding since we were sneaking to learn how to read. We’ve been showing ourselves to be exceptional, and it doesn’t change anything. I understand that burden; I do not feel that burden. I feel the burden on the page when writing a story to do justice to the black people I am rendering, but I don’t necessarily believe that my successes or failure will have some greater impact on the way that people view black people…”
Angela Flournoy (born 1985) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On not feeling pressured to represent all Black people in “THE SATURDAY RUMPUS INTERVIEW: ANGELA FLOURNOY” in The Rumpus (2016 Feb 13)
“Write about whatever random-ass black thing you want to write about. Or not. The only way that our literature will continue to grow is if we accept and acknowledge that nothing we write will change the hearts and minds of people who don’t want their hearts and minds changed…”
Angela Flournoy (born 1985) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Black writers writing about what they want to write about in “THE SATURDAY RUMPUS INTERVIEW: ANGELA FLOURNOY” in The Rumpus (2016 Feb 13)
“Whether it's 'cause you move away or because your lives are just sort of diverging, you have to keep choosing to be a part of this friendship.”
Angela Flournoy (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wanted to think about the beginnings and what it feels like to have a kind of rupture with someone you love, or you grew up loving, and for it to kind of just bloom into this insurmountable distance between the two of you.”
Angela Flournoy (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's something universal about the experience of navigating middle life or into middle life, which is that there are just a lot fewer guideposts.”
Angela Flournoy (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You've got to navigate what might feel just completely opaque by yourself in a lot of ways. There are the sort of fellow travelers, but you have to decide what is it going to feel like? What is going to feel satisfactory to you? And that is what I think about when I think about the title, is these women are navigating the wilderness.”
Angela Flournoy (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These women, they don't just have deep emotional lives, but they are, you know, thinking about the world. They're thinking about art. They're thinking about things that are bigger than just reactions to circumstances.”
Angela Flournoy (born 1985) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: taken from an interview with NPR, 16 September 2025
“There is a reason for African Americans to feel a lot of pride. Detroiters faced a lot of obstacles related to home ownership, which was a cornerstone of the American dream, but they achieved it nonetheless.”
Angela Flournoy (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s important for African Americans to find sources of pride as society turns away from valuing us.”
Angela Flournoy (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There were safety issues, the City let the lights remain off in certain areas, and there were no services. I wondered, how did this happen? I was exploring what it feels like to know things are changing and shifting.”
Angela Flournoy (born 1985) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: taken from an interview with ShelfTalk, 27 April 2017