America Quote by Anonymous

The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.

— Jess Row

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

— Anonymous

Not that long ago - in my parents' lives, in fact - actors in minstrel shows wore blackface to mimic and mock African Americans.…

— Wayne Messam

We don't often truly consider the embeddedness of black folks in the American imaginary. America would not exist in its current form without the…

— RaMell Ross

My own thinking has evolved. You find Africanisms in American speech. You find an African influence on United States culture. There are all kinds…

— Amiri Baraka

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

I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to…

— Lena Waithe

The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.

— Kehinde Wiley

I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced…

— Roy Ayers

African American culture is American culture.

— Salim Akil

As a black woman, I feel like I have a unique experience that we don't often see in media portrayals of the South.

— Angie Thomas

Black-ish is really a show about an American family and these are some of the topics that come up - for all of us,…

— Tracee Ellis Ross