Art Quote by Munira Mirza

Black artists deserve the opportunity to create work without the burden of alleviating the social ills plaguing many black communities.

— Clint Smith

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

I believe it's important to have equal opportunities as a black actor. My way of fighting for it is through my art, by not…

— Malachi Kirby

One of the things about being a minority actor is that you don't have that opportunity as some of your counterparts to keep that…

— Georg Stanford Brown

In the industry, artists of of color struggle the most. Caucasian artists have really solidified themselves in the industry, and with African Americans now…

— Mena Massoud

I used to always say - and I think a lot of artists think of it this way - that when you see a…

— Kerry James Marshall

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 can speak for pop music and representation is nowhere near where it should be. We're taking inspiration from black people but why am…

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

The work of black creatives seems to always get undermined in one way or another, and that's what this new generation is actively changing…

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an…

— Eric Fischl

Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to…

— Langston Hughes

Too often, if you look back through the history of representation and you take the work of African-American artists, the work is on such…

— Kerry James Marshall