Anything Quote by Tomi Adeyemi

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

— Clint Smith

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once…

— Jesse Jackson

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

— August Wilson

American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority…

— Cornel West

I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician.…

— Gil Scott-Heron

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

No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I decided to…

— Faith Ringgold

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published.…

— Walter Mosley

Black storytelling can be about anything, absolutely anything, and within that it can be as enriching, as complex, beautiful, ugly as anything else. We…

— Paterson Joseph

It's actually OK to be unique and have your own contributions, to celebrate what it means to be black, how we've survived and thrived…

— Alicia Garza

Black people are the most talented people in the world,

— Jamie Foxx