Art Quote by Langston Hughes

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we…

— Langston Hughes

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we…

— Langston Hughes

It's important for African-Americans to express themselves, period. We're 400 years behind. We should be able to shine whenever and however we feel.

— Jalen Rose

Black artists are encouraged to explore their identity but are then pigeonholed according to their ethnicity. We may have seen the decline of old…

— Munira Mirza

There is this feeling among black artists that you have to be really careful. We're not inclined to talk about this stuff because, if…

— Kelela

To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through…

— Langston Hughes

“I hate it when Africans fail to simply celebrate our features, without reminding us of the traumas they carry. Instead of making a contrast…

— Mitta Xinindlu

It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I…

— Langston Hughes

I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something…

— Paul Robeson

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

I paved the way for a lot of white artists now that don’t have to deal with the stigma of being a white artist.…

— Jon B

Negroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions.

— Malcolm X