Art Quote by Trip Lee

At its best, what art does is, it points to who we as human beings and what we as human beings value. And if…

— Kehinde Wiley

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

Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.

— Romare Bearden

Is there such a thing as black art? Or are there just artists who are black?

— Glenn Ligon

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.

— Sonia Sanchez

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

— Clint Smith

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

Art is a form of experience of the person, the place, the history of the people, and as black people, we are different. We…

— Faith Ringgold

I know now it's a hashtag and people have various feelings about it, but really if you look at all black art, even in…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

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

— August Wilson