African american Quote by Erykah Badu

I thought it was cool how [ Riccardo Tisci] wanted to blend Africa and Asia because they relate to each other in so many…

— Erykah Badu

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

Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to…

— Langston Hughes

Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian…

— Forest Whitaker

One of the reasons that the African American actors wanted to be a part of the show was because these people are talking to…

— Tony Goldwyn

It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I…

— Langston Hughes

“There was something different about the artists in the world. It almost seemed as if they felt things differently, deeper maybe. They saw the…

— Brittainy C. Cherry

The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.

— Amiri Baraka

You'll find in Africans a fantastic amount of heavy space opera and so on, going on ... which makes the colored African very, very…

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

What's interesting about young black American artists within the twentieth century, and increasingly within the twenty-first as well, is that there's this expectation of…

— Kehinde Wiley

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