Animosity Quote by Kerry James Marshall

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

“For what people of color quickly come to see—in a sense the primary epistemic principle of the racialized social epistemology of which they are…

— Charles W. Mills

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

— Maya Angelou

I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently.

— Ishmael Reed

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

— Chance The Rapper

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

All black art is always judged to illuminate our experience and prove that our stories and our history and our lives matter. And that…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I'm like, 'This…

— Jessica Williams

As a black person, I'm used to going to places in which I might be the only black person that shows up there. This…

— Kerry James Marshall

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

“Look here, it's all very tidy and convenient to see the world in black and white.....It's a particular passion of young men eager to…

— Helen Simonson

Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of…

— Anonymous