Art Quote by Cord Jefferson Download Open image “I never wanted to police Blackness or police art.” — Cord Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Blackness Blackness Police Never Police Police Art Police Blackness Wanted
I've never played a police person before 'Black Work,' and certainly had never worn a uniform. — Geraldine James Copy Share Image
Black Lives Matter is not just concerned with what happens in policing. The disregard, the disrespect, and the lack of dignity for black life… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
I don't wanna be like somebody that just depicts black characters where drugs and guns are just a majority of what they have to… — Y'lan Noel Copy Share Image
In the racialized space of capitalist gentrification, police are not only arbiters of the peace, they are the muscle of retail racism: You can… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
“As far as i was concerned, the police in the Black communities were nothing but a foreign, occupying army, beating, torturing, and murdering people… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
To be very good at football, you need to be able to snuff out the voice inside of you that says it's better for… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think that was one of the reasons I loved 'Moonlight.' I don't remember if there's a single white person in that movie. It's… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Bravery is a virtue people revere in dead soldiers and then turn to disparage in someone extending her hand to a weirdo. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Cutoff culture,' 'the friendzone:' these are just neologisms used by men to mask or soften the reality that they have been - and have… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
The reason I became a writer is because I like sitting in dark rooms by myself, not standing on stage and talking to people. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
My mother told me she thought I had clinical depression when I was 19 years old. And I thought, you're crazy because, you know,… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is an appetite for things that are different and a story with Black characters that's going to appeal to a lot of people. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
The hostility directed at writers who cover minority beats in America is solid proof that those people are doing important work. But that work… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
It should go without saying that there's no outside arbiter of who 'deserves' which woman, or of what one 'deserves' to receive from a… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The thing about New York stories that many storytellers often forget is that they can take place anywhere in the world. That's because for… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image