Always Quote by Cheo Hodari Coker

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being…

— Ishmael Reed

If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, or Richard…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an elemental trait…

— Thomas Jefferson

When I think of the Harlem Renaissance, I think of bright colors, and bold, dynamic art. African American artists of the period were, in…

— Nikki Grimes

I wanted to pay homage to someone who was such an important literary figure in my life. I think Langston Hughes would be proud…

— Kasi Lemmons

Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.

— Kehinde Wiley

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

— Sonia Sanchez

I didn't always value the ways black people talked. I thought, in order to make art out of it, you had to change it.

— August Wilson

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

Is there such a thing as black art? Or are there just artists who are black?

— Glenn Ligon

“Shout out to all the Black writers who push the world forward by sharing the stories, lives, history, imaginations and magic of black culture.…

— Blitberry