New Quote by Kehinde Wiley

There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.

— Kehinde Wiley

In the end, so much of what I wanted to do was to have a body of work that exhaustively looked at black American…

— Kehinde Wiley

Questlove is an artist who I respect because he constantly shifts within the idiom, challenging perceptions of hip-hop and black American culture.

— Kehinde Wiley

I happen to be a twin. I grew up half of my life with someone who looks and sounds like me. And I believe…

— Kehinde Wiley

What's interesting about young black American artists within the twentieth century, and increasingly within the twenty-first as well, is that there's this expectation of…

— Kehinde Wiley

The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.

— Kehinde Wiley

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will…

— Henry Louis Gates

By some estimates, 80% of rap music is bought by white youth. And this makes for another irony. The blooming of white alienation has…

— Shelby Steele

My generation of black British people often feels part American because of what we learned from TV.

— Michaela Coel

The upside of being a part of a post-civil rights generation is that black folks really are more diverse. But the flash point for…

— Reginald Hudlin

When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was…

— Ruud Gullit

Here you have 22 million Afro-Americans, black people today, catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw. And I'm here to tell you, in…

— Malcolm X

We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are going to…

— Jewell Jackson McCabe

Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system

— Anonymous

Imagine if everyone was able to help just one child who needs to be listened to, needs to be respected, and needs to be…

— Kate Middleton