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title: "35 Black Experience Quotes by 29 authors"
description: "Browse 35 Black Experience quotes by 29 authors. Discover the best Black Experience sayings and thoughts."
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> [I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wadada-leo-smith/i-wanted-to-identify-that-the-black-experience-is-american-experience/)

[Wadada Leo Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wadada-leo-smith/)

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> [I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/i-speak-to-the-black-experience-but-i-am-always-talking-about-the/)

[Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/)

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> [There is a multitude of experiences that make up the black experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chance-the-rapper/there-is-a-multitude-of-experiences-that-make-up-the-black-experience/)

[Chance The Rapper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chance-the-rapper/)

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> [The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margot-lee-shetterly/the-black-experience-isn-t-exclusively-slavery-civil-rights-obama/)

[Margot Lee Shetterly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margot-lee-shetterly/)

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> [There isn't just one black experience out here.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/prodigy/there-isn-t-just-one-black-experience-out-here/)

[Prodigy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/prodigy/)

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> [There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/august-wilson/there-s-no-idea-in-the-world-that-is-not-contained-by-black-life-i/)

[August Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/august-wilson/)

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> [I would just love to see more shows that highlight positivity rather than trauma of the Black experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judi-love/i-would-just-love-to-see-more-shows-that-highlight-positivity-rather/)

[Judi Love](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judi-love/)

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> [In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jayne-cortez/in-the-sense-that-i-also-try-to-reflect-the-fullness-of-the-black/)

[Jayne Cortez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jayne-cortez/)

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> [Now that the black experience isn't viewed as box-office death, people are catching up to untapped auteurs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jordan-peele/now-that-the-black-experience-isn-t-viewed-as-box-office-death-people/)

[Jordan Peele](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jordan-peele/)

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> [Black History Month could focus less on slavery and civil rights and more on the Harlem Renaissance and everything we have achieved.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marley-dias/black-history-month-could-focus-less-on-slavery-and-civil-rights-and/)

[Marley Dias](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marley-dias/)

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> [To me, to neuter a photograph of person of color in some general sense is to continue to forget the complexity of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramell-ross/to-me-to-neuter-a-photograph-of-person-of-color-in-some-general-sense/)

[RaMell Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramell-ross/)

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> [If I can relate the black experience to white people, then they can understand us better and not be so afraid.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-griffin/if-i-can-relate-the-black-experience-to-white-people-then-they-can/)

[Eddie Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-griffin/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-i-a/my-experience-has-to-be-funnelled-through-a-black-experience-or-a/)

[M.I.A](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-i-a/)

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> [The black experience, which has nothing to do with my play 'Angels in America,' allowed me to understand the Mormon character. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-c-wolfe/the-black-experience-which-has-nothing-to-do-with-my-play-angels-in/)

[George C. Wolfe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-c-wolfe/)

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> [In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-foner/in-the-shadow-of-slavery-covers-two-and-a-half-centuries-of-black/)

[Eric Foner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-foner/)

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> [During the last decades, films about the black experience have been produced, directed, and even scripted by white men. Some of them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ishmael-reed/during-the-last-decades-films-about-the-black-experience-have-been/)

[Ishmael Reed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ishmael-reed/)

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> [The truth of the matter is, there were shows that depicted black characters that were on in the '90s, and they gave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/logan-browning/the-truth-of-the-matter-is-there-were-shows-that-depicted-black/)

[Logan Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/logan-browning/)

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> [From a very young age, I felt a spiritual, visceral, instinctual connection with 'black is beautiful.' Just the black experience and wanting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-dolezal/from-a-very-young-age-i-felt-a-spiritual-visceral-instinctual/)

[Rachel Dolezal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-dolezal/)

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> [The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-williams/the-black-experience-for-me-has-been-very-interesting-some-days-i/)

[Jessica Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-williams/)

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> [Spike Lee made such a difference in terms of black filmmakers, the subtleties - those authors, those writers who write from love,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruby-dee/spike-lee-made-such-a-difference-in-terms-of-black-filmmakers-the/)

[Ruby Dee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruby-dee/)

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> [We don't often truly consider the embeddedness of black folks in the American imaginary. America would not exist in its current form…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramell-ross/we-don-t-often-truly-consider-the-embeddedness-of-black-folks-in-the/)

[RaMell Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramell-ross/)

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> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-polgreen/i-have-a-perhaps-naive-point-of-view-informed-by-my-own-kind-of/)

[Lydia Polgreen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-polgreen/)

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> [Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/august-wilson/blacks-have-traditionally-had-to-operate-in-a-situation-where-whites/)

[August Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/august-wilson/)

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> [Some things you never really fully understand unless you are actually black and you experience how it feels when someone treats you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aj-tracey/some-things-you-never-really-fully-understand-unless-you-are-actually/)

[AJ Tracey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aj-tracey/)

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> [And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-childress/and-realizing-there-is-no-such-thing-as-the-black-experience-time-and/)

[Alice Childress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-childress/)

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> [“I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/i-speak-to-the-black-experience-but-i-am-always-talking-about-the-2/)

[Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/)

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> [In horror, there's a level of anxiety that your life can be taken at any moment. That's the Black experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/misha-green/in-horror-there-s-a-level-of-anxiety-that-your-life-can-be-taken-at/)

[Misha Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/misha-green/)

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> [I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/august-wilson/i-write-the-black-experience-in-america-and-contained-within-that/)

[August Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/august-wilson/)

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> [Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bell-hooks/teaching-black-studies-i-find-that-students-are-quick-to-label-a/)

[Bell Hooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bell-hooks/)

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> [My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayana-mathis/my-book-has-a-pre-civil-rights-setting-with-a-post-civil-rights/)

[Ayana Mathis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayana-mathis/)

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> [I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-rollins/i-think-hip-hop-has-definitely-brought-the-black-experience-to-white/)

[Henry Rollins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-rollins/)

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> [In 2016, the conversation of the black experience is so broad, and it's very raw. I mean, c'mon, we have a black…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-shaheed-muhammad/in-2016-the-conversation-of-the-black-experience-is-so-broad-and-it-s/)

[Ali Shaheed Muhammad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-shaheed-muhammad/)

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> [The Black experience in America now includes everything, all the way up to being the president of the United States.' But there's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cord-jefferson/the-black-experience-in-america-now-includes-everything-all-the-way/)

[Cord Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cord-jefferson/)

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> [I think that's what's so great about 'Jessica James' is you get to sit back and take a moment and realize that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-williams/i-think-that-s-what-s-so-great-about-jessica-james-is-you-get-to-sit/)

[Jessica Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-williams/)

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> [I think a lot about race and the burdens of representation. There's an idea that because I'm writing a book set around…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayana-mathis/i-think-a-lot-about-race-and-the-burdens-of-representation-there-s-an/)

[Ayana Mathis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayana-mathis/)

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