Age Quote by Jenna Wortham

“Think of anything, of cowboys, of movies, of detective stories, of anybody who goes anywhere or stays at home and is an American and…

— Gertrude Stein

“It’s almost like that’s the definition of being American: You love becoming Irish for a day, or becoming Italian… Or becoming a Negro for…

— Josh Alan Friedman

“This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America: that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist.”

— June Jordan

“Americans are as unlike any other white people in the world as it is possible to be. I do not think, for example, that…

— James Baldwin

“Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for.”

— Joshua Ferris

It's profound to watch a little African-American girl light up when she raps as George Washington and she realizes that Washington's story is her…

— Rory O'Malley

“I can tell you how exceptionally easy it is to be ignorant of the racial forces that have shaped my life and views, and…

— Debby Irving

“A black woman making art is a disruptive act. Every story that I tell as a woman is a political act, even if I…

— Ava DuVernay

“Realness often stands alone but painfully just. © TyLeishia Douglass 2012 All Rights Reserved”

— TyLeishia Douglass

“You might like that one. But I’ll tell you the same thing I tell my students when they complain about the depressing nature of…

— Matthew Quick

“She smashed stereotypes and bridged a racial gap in our country like few who've gone before.”

— BeBe Winans

“In high school, I developed a new love: acting. I went to a predominantly black and Latino school in Compton and, outside of television,…

— Issa Rae