Art Quote by Will M Cook Download Open image “Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way.” — Will M Cook ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Long way
“THEY WERE PEOPLE who went in for Negroes—Michael and Anne—the Carraways. But not in the social-service, philanthropic sort of way, no. They saw no use in helping a race that was already too charming and naive and lovely for words. Leave them unspoiled and just enjoy them, Michael and Anne felt. So they went in for the Art of Negroes—the… — Langston Hughes Copy Share
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
I realized with Broadway everything written for black people is usually written in the past, and I'm kind of a contemporary guy. I don't… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Although the civil-rights movement did a lot to change how black life was dramatized on the American stage in the fifties and sixties, white… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
As a kid growing up and seeing so much strife taking place in society, and particularly on Blacks and people of color, I had… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a… — Wallace Thurman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't… — Redd Foxx Copy Share Image
Broadway musicals like 'Ain't Misbehavin',' 'Eubie' and 'Bubblin' Brown Sugar' depict blacks having a light, wonderful time and that was just not so for… — Yolanda King Copy Share Image
My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.'… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else,… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world! — Will M Cook Copy Share Image
I was so delirious that I drank a glass of water, thought it wine and got glorious drunk. — Will M Cook Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image