Art Quote by Forest Whitaker

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

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

There's not enough black films out there. There's not enough Latin films, or films that have an Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern lead. The…

— Kat Graham

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

In the industry, artists of of color struggle the most. Caucasian artists have really solidified themselves in the industry, and with African Americans now…

— Mena Massoud

Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels…

— Garth Fagan

There has to be more opportunities for Asian or black actors.

— Adeel Akhtar

I'm just hoping that, as more black artists take control of the narratives that are out there, more opportunities will come around for artists…

— KiKi Layne

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

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

— Amiri Baraka

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

— Clint Smith

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