Also Quote by Andre Holland

Black people dance well because we start early - there's music being played everywhere. White people? They don't start dancing until they get to…

— Tracy Morgan

Black culture - we dance and sing. We're entertainers. James Brown said it best: the things we are make people want to be like…

— Mark Henry

Often, African-Americans' work is accepted as if we did something artistic by happenstance. It's almost like, 'They make TV shows the same way they…

— Salim Akil

Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.

— Cornel West

All people share the same desire to be treated equally. We all go through similar emotional journeys from love to hate, rejection to acceptance.…

— Dana Tai Soon Burgess

American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority…

— Cornel West

To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend…

— Jesse Helms

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and…

— Bell Hooks

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

— Maya Angelou

There is this feeling among black artists that you have to be really careful. We're not inclined to talk about this stuff because, if…

— Kelela

“If we are to be honest with ourselves, we must admit that the "Negro" has been inviting whites, as well as civil society's junior…

— Frank B. Wilderson III