About Quote by Toyin Odutola

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

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

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

Right now, black female artists are the most interesting people to think about. People are ready to hear whatever we're gonna say, and I'm…

— Tink

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

People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a rhetorical device.…

— Kerry James Marshall

A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to work... and…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

There's this idea that many of the attitudes and personality developments in black folks in the diaspora are a consequence of this unresolved trauma.…

— 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 people come in so many different bodies, genders, and sexualities, so it's important that we're conscious of that so we can fight for…

— Franchesca Ramsey

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

— Clint Smith

I got into the business because I love writing. When it came down to finding my voice, which every writer has to take time…

— Lena Waithe

Black people have to define who we are, or others do it for us.

— Baron Vaughn