Art Quote by Mark Morrison

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

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

I've felt very proud of British artists from a young age.

— Vick Hope

I know now it's a hashtag and people have various feelings about it, but really if you look at all black art, even in…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Black art is not some kind of a magic wand: there still has to be a humble heart attached that's listening to it. And…

— Trip Lee

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

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 am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician.…

— Gil Scott-Heron

I am a black British female artist, so I must be like Ms Dynamite, I must be like Shystie, I must be like Jamelia,…

— Estelle

A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being…

— Ishmael Reed

It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default.

— Janelle Monae

I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced…

— Roy Ayers