Black Quote by Dawoud Bey

Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you…

— Henry Hampton

My work is often a therapy for myself - a working out of these issues as a black woman. And a way of allowing…

— Wangechi Mutu

I like to present Blacks in the proper light.

— Demond Wilson

To operate with the aspiration of color-blindness in a country whose central operating mechanism for centuries has been race belies the logic of race-neutral…

— Clint Smith

I thought that, as a black audience member, I would like to see something that reflected an experience that's not normally exhibited in documentaries,…

— Elvis Mitchell

“The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings. Consequently, our laws and attitudes have been straining against the…

— Claudia Rankine

If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you're going…

— KiKi Layne

We have to stop seeing the skin color. I believe that's the most powerful way to change mentalities and behavior. I had to stop…

— Omar Sy

When you say to a person of colour, 'When I see you, I don't see you Black; I just see everybody the same' think…

— Jane Elliott

Recognize that being one of the only black people in an organization, or just in a meeting, automatically makes you very visible. Use this…

— Kenneth I. Chenault

For years, I've been painting black men as a way to respond to the reality of the streets. I've asked black men to show…

— Kehinde Wiley

Remember that my view, the only true view I can see with, is through the black eyes that I have.

— Chuck Berry