I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience. — Wadada Leo Smith Copy Share Image
I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is a multitude of experiences that make up the black experience. — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama. — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I would just love to see more shows that highlight positivity rather than trauma of the Black experience. — Judi Love Copy Share Image
In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet. — Jayne Cortez Copy Share Image
Now that the black experience isn't viewed as box-office death, people are catching up to untapped auteurs. — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
Black History Month could focus less on slavery and civil rights and more on the Harlem Renaissance and everything we have achieved.… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
To me, to neuter a photograph of person of color in some general sense is to continue to forget the complexity of… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
If I can relate the black experience to white people, then they can understand us better and not be so afraid. — Eddie Griffin Copy Share Image
My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
The black experience, which has nothing to do with my play 'Angels in America,' allowed me to understand the Mormon character. He… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
During the last decades, films about the black experience have been produced, directed, and even scripted by white men. Some of them… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is, there were shows that depicted black characters that were on in the '90s, and they gave… — Logan Browning Copy Share Image
From a very young age, I felt a spiritual, visceral, instinctual connection with 'black is beautiful.' Just the black experience and wanting… — Rachel Dolezal Copy Share Image
The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I'm… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
Spike Lee made such a difference in terms of black filmmakers, the subtleties - those authors, those writers who write from love,… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
We don't often truly consider the embeddedness of black folks in the American imaginary. America would not exist in its current form… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
I have a perhaps naive point of view informed by my own kind of snowflake-in-the-unique-sense rather than the political sense, personal story.… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Some things you never really fully understand unless you are actually black and you experience how it feels when someone treats you… — AJ Tracey Copy Share Image
And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides. — Alice Childress Copy Share Image
“I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In horror, there's a level of anxiety that your life can be taken at any moment. That's the Black experience. — Misha Green Copy Share Image
I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
In 2016, the conversation of the black experience is so broad, and it's very raw. I mean, c'mon, we have a black… — Ali Shaheed Muhammad Copy Share Image
The Black experience in America now includes everything, all the way up to being the president of the United States.' But there's… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think that's what's so great about 'Jessica James' is you get to sit back and take a moment and realize that… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
I think a lot about race and the burdens of representation. There's an idea that because I'm writing a book set around… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
