Art Quote by Vivek Shraya

To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an…

— George A. Sheehan

I have dedicated a significant portion of my time and artistry to making art that addresses various forms of oppression, including white supremacy, misogyny,…

— Vivek Shraya

This world is not one color or culture. Everybody has a story. To tell that story or see that story reflected through art is…

— Jesse L. Martin

I'm just happy that in the whole framework of art imitates life, or maybe life should be imitating art, there is this kind of…

— Jimmy Smits

We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art.…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

I think that art likes to express society and the way the world is. Hopefully that's what it's trying to do. I gotta be…

— Forest Whitaker

Cultural identity is of course connected to this issue. When I was younger, it was inspiring to write about the people that raised me,…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

“When art sets racism in the past, no matter how good it is, it allows white people in the audience (and others) to say…

— W. Kamau Bell

What's interesting about young black American artists within the twentieth century, and increasingly within the twenty-first as well, is that there's this expectation of…

— Kehinde Wiley

If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists.

— Vivek Shraya

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it…

— Adam McKay

“Multiculturalism--the claim that minority cultures and ways of life should be protected through group rights and privilege--amounts to the Balkanization of this country into…

— Tammy Bruce