American Quote by Wadada Leo Smith

There is a multitude of experiences that make up the black experience.

— Chance The Rapper

I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

— August Wilson

The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of…

— Opal Tometi

There isn't just one black experience out here.

— Prodigy

My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to…

— M.I.A

To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but central to…

— Opal Tometi

There is an imagined thing called black culture. But culture is a construction. It is learned behavior, not innate. The black American experience is…

— Glenn Ligon

I'm an American, but being a black American, my experience is a particular one, my struggles have been particular.

— Bill Duke

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

— Anonymous

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

— Maya Angelou

The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.

— Kehinde Wiley

While I might not have a specific experience that is fully American, there is still a knowledge, something that I logically understand as a…

— Jodie Turner-Smith