Adopted Quote by Colin Marston

The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and…

— Colin Marston

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

Black metal - especially from the '90s - contains a certain production aesthetic that keys you into the emotive content. You feel it more…

— Jorge Elbrecht

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

I really don't want to be associated with the low-brow Black Metal genre. If you want to know what I mean when I say…

— Varg Vikernes

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

Blackness also has positive dimensions, those that bear the political meanings of African American people, among other blacks, who have struggled for self-determination and…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Black Metal just makes sense; its melodramatic Satanism transformed into an angry lament for human folly. But it doesn't just mourn. It also aims…

— Brenda S. Gardenour Walter

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

— Anonymous

It's a beautiful idea to focus on how everything is temporary and always in flux. It may feel bad now, but it will feel…

— Phil Elvrum

I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced…

— Roy Ayers

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

— Clint Smith