Art Quote by Alvin Ailey

Black artists deserve the opportunity to create work without the burden of alleviating the social ills plaguing many black communities.

— Clint Smith

Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of…

— Eddie Vedder

All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I just always feel that any black art should address our perpetual struggle for progress and freedom, period. There's no way around it. The…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

What's interesting about young black American artists within the twentieth century, and increasingly within the twenty-first as well, is that there's this expectation of…

— Kehinde Wiley

So many famous iconic American songs are protest songs, and I think that the vast majority of artists will only continue to add to…

— Liv Bruce

If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.

— Walter Becker

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

— Andres Serrano

I think artists throughout the history of time have always been controversial and have been a voice to speak to public culture in a…

— Mark Foster

Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to…

— Langston Hughes

I think artists should really write more.

— Gza

I think art can really serve to inspire a movement - and, of course, it has in the past. The Civil Rights movement wouldn't…

— Saul Williams