Art Quote by Van Hunt

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 am not a black artist, I am an artist.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.

— Toyin Odutola

My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow…

— Mark McMorris

Is the 'black designer' label there to warn everyone not to have the same level of expectations for me, or is it some type…

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

If black artists can win major commissions and international acclaim, why do we assume that to be black is always to be marginal, or…

— Munira Mirza

Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They're not interested in your ears, we just…

— Ben E. King

As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on…

— Kelis

Most rappers are black men. If you're a black man, you owe something to the community that you came from. If you're rapping about…

— Killer Mike

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

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

— Clint Smith