Art Quote by Salim Akil

Like anyone else in television, I like to explore my life experience. And I don't think African-American artists see doing shows or art about…

— Salim Akil

For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my…

— Paul Robeson

I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to…

— Lena Waithe

African American writers and artists, by the very nature of what they do, will actually enhance or bring together people in a way that…

— Jerry Pinkney

Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to be subversive,…

— Andre Holland

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

— Anonymous

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

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

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

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

— Clint Smith

African American culture is American culture.

— Salim Akil

Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa. They said,…

— Henry Louis Gates