Art Quote by Sonia Sanchez

What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty.…

— August Wilson

The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.

— Amiri Baraka

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

— Clint Smith

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

If you look at pop culture as the main picture you see of black men, all these kind of threatening pictures and - I…

— Trip Lee

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

History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans…

— Clint Smith

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

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

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

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 just always feel that any black art should address our perpetual struggle for progress and freedom, period. There's no way around it. The…

— Cheo Hodari Coker