American Quote by Kehinde Wiley

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

I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.

— Wadada Leo Smith

I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

— August Wilson

Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

— June Jordan

If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you're going…

— KiKi Layne

I wanted to make sure the focus [in The Land] was on human beings themselves and their decisions, but still connected to the urban…

— Steven Caple Jr

I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.

— Kenya Barris

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

— Michael Eric Dyson

The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of…

— Opal Tometi

I just feel in a lot of ways black people are so much looser and cooler. Just as a culture, it's so much more…

— Paul Reubens

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

— Chance The Rapper

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

— Maya Angelou