Brazen Quote by Bret Easton Ellis

I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities of R&B…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we couldn't deny,…

— Michael Eric Dyson

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

Black artists are encouraged to explore their identity but are then pigeonholed according to their ethnicity. We may have seen the decline of old…

— Munira Mirza

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an African American…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no…

— Joe Morton

I used to always say - and I think a lot of artists think of it this way - that when you see a…

— Kerry James Marshall

Every artist should want to be like Michael Jackson

— Bruno Mars

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.

— Michael Eric Dyson

“This operates in popular culture in a bluntly commercial way, since black entertainers are also measured by a box office that is indifferent to…

— Jason Zinoman

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

— August Wilson

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman

— Molly Ivins