Art Quote by Michael Schultz

Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way.

— Will M Cook

Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is because it…

— Toni Morrison

The music of the civil rights movement came from Black artists.

— Jasmine Crockett

I'm one of those persons who think that watching black people suffer is not an idea of entertainment. I know a lot about African…

— Harry Lennix

Although the civil-rights movement did a lot to change how black life was dramatized on the American stage in the fifties and sixties, white…

— Hilton Als

I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little bit iffy…

— Cecile McLorin Salvant

There have been so few decent films involving Negroes that right away everybody expects every film to do everything. But when you make a…

— Jim Brown

. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and…

— Bell Hooks

I realized with Broadway everything written for black people is usually written in the past, and I'm kind of a contemporary guy. I don't…

— Chris Rock

Broadway musicals like 'Ain't Misbehavin',' 'Eubie' and 'Bubblin' Brown Sugar' depict blacks having a light, wonderful time and that was just not so for…

— Yolanda King

Not that long ago - in my parents' lives, in fact - actors in minstrel shows wore blackface to mimic and mock African Americans.…

— Wayne Messam