America Quote by August Wilson

I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.

— Wadada Leo Smith

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.

— August Wilson

There is a multitude of experiences that make up the black experience.

— Chance The Rapper

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for…

— Mara Brock Akil

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 going to…

— M.I.A

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

— Maya Angelou

The Black experience in America now includes everything, all the way up to being the president of the United States.' But there's genres for…

— Cord Jefferson

The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of…

— Opal Tometi

I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving…

— August Wilson

I think a lot about race and the burdens of representation. There's an idea that because I'm writing a book set around the time…

— Ayana Mathis

The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

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