Black Quote by Jordan Peele

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

— August Wilson

There is a multitude of experiences that make up the black experience.

— Chance The Rapper

That existential crisis is something you rarely see portrayed by black characters; the idea that people think about their own existence and that they…

— Boots Riley

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

— Anonymous

All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun to be…

— Leontyne Price

We don't often truly consider the embeddedness of black folks in the American imaginary. America would not exist in its current form without the…

— RaMell Ross

My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to…

— M.I.A

The truth of the matter is, there were shows that depicted black characters that were on in the '90s, and they gave everybody a…

— Logan Browning

I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to…

— Lena Waithe

Being black is the new awesome.

— Anonymous

The work of black creatives seems to always get undermined in one way or another, and that's what this new generation is actively changing…

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

America has a strange relationship with its racial memory. Death has always been a constant companion of black people.

— Salim Akil