Becoming Quote by Lena Waithe

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

Being black is the new awesome.

— Anonymous

I'm just hoping that, as more black artists take control of the narratives that are out there, more opportunities will come around for artists…

— KiKi Layne

Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of…

— Nikki Giovanni

If I'm going to be the black designer, I'm going to tell it my way.

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them…

— Bruce Oldfield

Black is just such an easy colour to wear and always looks cool and slick.

— Vogue Williams

Think about how much fashion profits from black culture and how underrepresented we are in the industry. If you insist on using black celebrities…

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

I think the reason why Off-White exists is to modernize fashion.

— Virgil Abloh

Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't…

— Art Spiegelman

I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it…

— Miriam Makeba

More black women are in the professional-managerial field, and they don't want to look like the guys sitting next to them in pinstriped suits.

— Linda Johnson Rice