African american Quote by August Wilson

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.

— Sonia Sanchez

Too often, if you look back through the history of representation and you take the work of African-American artists, the work is on such…

— Kerry James Marshall

History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans…

— Clint Smith

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

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

— Clint Smith

There is a political and racial context behind everything that I do. Not always because I design it that way, or because I want…

— Kehinde Wiley

I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back…

— Spike Lee

African American writers and artists, by the very nature of what they do, will actually enhance or bring together people in a way that…

— Jerry Pinkney

My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a…

— Michelle Singletary

“Throughout my life as I’ve sought to become a published writer of speculative fiction, my strongest detractors and discouragers have been other African Americans.…

— N.K. Jemisin

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of the United…

— Jacob Lawrence