Assumption Quote by Anthony Braxton

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

As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone is a…

— James McBride

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

— Cornel West

Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you…

— Bill Cosby

“African-American writers with an independent vision are often consigned to obscurity. The white critics can only tolerate one black writer at a time, usually…

— Ishmael Reed

In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

— Junot Diaz

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

The work of black creatives seems to always get undermined in one way or another, and that's what this new generation is actively changing…

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

“The impulse to explain is the Achilles’ heel of all genre work, and the most sophisticated artists within every genre know better than to…

— Tom Bissell

That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak first to…

— Mike Svob

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published.…

— Walter Mosley

We live in a media saturated world. I'm sure artists of the past would have dealt with it in just the same way. If…

— Grayson Perry