American revolution Quote by Thomas Jefferson

All black art is always judged to illuminate our experience and prove that our stories and our history and our lives matter. And that…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

“What I should have seen was that his soul was just as black as his features.”

— Amy Noelle

“I have seen the absolute black; it was unspeakably beautiful.”

— C.P. Cavafy

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

“He liked the way the obsidian reflected his light, the way its slick surfaces caught fire as he passed. Of course, he did not…

— Madeline Miller

There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.

— James Earl Jones

“There was something different about the artists in the world. It almost seemed as if they felt things differently, deeper maybe. They saw the…

— Brittainy C. Cherry

I didn't always value the ways black people talked. I thought, in order to make art out of it, you had to change it.

— August Wilson

“And that next day, he was in the black mood, what we call the swartgalligheid, which is the black gall. And the heart is…

— Alan Paton

“I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive.”

— Maya Angelou

“Black is my favorite color. It's limitless. It's indefinable. It keeps you guessing. When there's nothing to see, you're forced to imagine. It makes…

— Katie Kacvinsky

“I look up upon a sparsely starred abyss Having wandered to this street corner In the middle of the night Watching the cars and…

— Justin Wetch