African american Quote by John Edgar Wideman

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

— Lynn Swann

We're the curator for the African-American experience for the past, present and future. That's my job.

— Linda Johnson Rice

Despite the obstacles of race and class, I was always taught that I could accomplish anything I set my mind to. African-American writers, for…

— Clarence Major

A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's…

— Wangechi Mutu

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its…

— Romare Bearden

There is a political and racial context behind everything that I do. Not always because I design it that way, or because I want…

— Kehinde Wiley

My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a…

— Michelle Singletary

I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving…

— August Wilson

I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream.…

— Malcolm D. Lee

I have written 13 books, full of my ideas about a variety of issues - from black women, to hip-hop culture, to the civil…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it…

— Tim Reid

I enjoy challenging perspective - challenging ideas of what it means to be a black man.

— Stephan James