“I am an American, proud to be an American, proud to be a black American. I’m not African-American. I’ve never been to… — Ken Hutcherson Copy Share Image
All the best British groups were inspired by black American music. With The Beatles, it was Motown and the blues. With me,… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Well, when you think about it black American culture evolved over three and a half centuries. Every minute under which they lived… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Hip Hop is the rebirth of civilization. For people who were disconnected from their continent, from their language, from their culture, and… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
Questlove is an artist who I respect because he constantly shifts within the idiom, challenging perceptions of hip-hop and black American culture. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Even though the agency kept me pretty busy, I auditioned for every play and film I could find. But they all wanted… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
There is an imagined thing called black culture. But culture is a construction. It is learned behavior, not innate. The black American… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
The rise of fascism in Europe sent most Americans home. Some black American communists who had emigrated to the Soviet Union perished… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
My dad was never one of those dads you could ask for a quarter if you saw a gumball machine. Instead he… — S.A. Bodeen Copy Share Image
In the end, so much of what I wanted to do was to have a body of work that exhaustively looked at… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.' — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“Los Angeles was like a B-Grade prostitute. She let anyone in, looked less than average, and once inside, you realized there was… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“But I remain what I was when I started my vocation, my pilgrimage of self-discovery: a black preacher. It is for that… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
In the era of slavery, you could be a so-called Afro-Cuban one day and a so-called Black American the next day, or… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
“While stationed in Fort Jackson, I experienced racial prejudice for the first time and came to the understanding that humans are not… — Omanson, Oliver Copy Share Image
I used to go to soul nights because I loved dancing, and so did my friends, and we loved the music. We… — Rick Astley Copy Share Image
“I advise you to be suspicious of any black American whose family does not claim a blood connection to Native Americans. That’s… — Baratunde Thurston Copy Share Image
The reality of Barack Obama being the president of the United States - quite possibly the most powerful nation in the world… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“She’d heard of black American Express cards before, because famous people had them, and now she was holding one with her name… — Michelle Madow Copy Share Image
There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
“It is, indeed, one of the basic moral blindspots of American conservatism that its intellectual and leadership energy have never been focused… — Martin Kilson Copy Share Image
I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
I lament that Paris can be a threatening space for Jews, Roma, Africans and Arabs, but the truth is, as a black… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
