20th century Quote by 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

One of the expectations growing up was that I'd become a well-known artist.

— Domino Kirke

I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies,…

— Zoe Kravitz

The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me…

— Vin Diesel

I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not…

— Isabel Sanford

Many people see my early work simply as portraits of black and brown people. Really, it's an investigation of how we see those people…

— Kehinde Wiley

At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.

— Miranda Lambert

When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!' But we…

— David Mitchell

I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young…

— Edmund White

I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after. In some ways, the genre is almost gone. I am thinking…

— Hedi Slimane

I believe I am standing firm as a black woman in this industry in a time that it is hard as an artist period.

— Dawn Richard

The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white…

— Oprah Winfrey