Appreciation Quote by Henry Ossawa Tanner

You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.

— William Christopher Handy

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

— Langston Hughes

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

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

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

History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans…

— Clint Smith

If comics are modern mythology, then black participation and representation is crucial.

— Reginald Hudlin

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that the content…

— Paul Robeson

There's this idea that many of the attitudes and personality developments in black folks in the diaspora are a consequence of this unresolved trauma.…

— Kerry James Marshall

Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.

— Frederick Douglass

Too often, if you look back through the history of representation and you take the work of African-American artists, the work is on such…

— Kerry James Marshall