Black Creativity Quotes

#1. For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity - or even western creativity - but this assumption was seriously in error.

Anthony Braxton

#2. And what opinion did Bokonon hold of his own cosmogony?
"Foma! Lies!" he wrote. "A pack of foma!

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.

Cornel West

#4. It was amazing what an hour with her sketchpad could do for her mood. She was sure that the lines she drew with her black marker were going to save her years of worry lines in the future.

Victoria Kahler

#5. I figure this," said Zaphod. "Whatever happened to my mind, I did it. And I did it in such a way that it wouldn't be detected by the Government screening tests.

Douglas Adams

#6. I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.

Reggie Jackson

#7. Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

David Corbett

#8. I believed in myself and I am a firm believer you have to think the things you want and visualize.

John Legend

#9. I, sole heir to the Munodi line and memory, am childless. A friend who knows such things has told me that this explains my compulsion to capture what I can with black ink on white paper." ("The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron Munodi")

Rikki Ducornet

#10. The inside of life became far smaller than the outside, creating a cavity, an emptiness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#11. Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much.

Jimmy Carl Black

#12. Why would science ever recognize God;
that would make [them] accountable for their crimes against [him].

Craig Smedley

#13. Leaving Humanity is only your decision.

Udayveer Singh

#14. No one wants to be entrapped by his or her addictive habit...

Asa Don Brown

#15. My creativity isn't rooted in confidence. It grows from many things, no doubt, but chief among them is a deep, rebellious, and indeed almost hostile stance toward complacency- about anything. It feels like the enemy. And certainty? It closes doors. Ends discussions. Shuts other people out.

Robin Black

#16. The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

Ross Macdonald

#17. Jett's artistic talent was as weighty and emphatic as the heavy black makeup she applied to her lips and eyelids.

Judith Fertig

#18. The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

Aberjhani

#19. If you wish to stand and progress as you ought, hold yourself an exile and a pilgrim on the earth.

Thomas A Kempis

#20. America is a great country, and we've done a lot of good in the world. But we are a collection of people, not saints. We have our own sins to atone for.

Marianne Williamson

#21. Thomas shivered. He would know that voice anywhere. It was Janson.

James Dashner

#22. If my body is a Universe, I have a black hole. I mask it, but it sits at the center of my body. I question it. Am I living up to my potential? Would I lose my creativity if I got help? Isn't life a black hole?

Claudia Turner

#23. Perry, the manager, had come up with him, in trousers and bathrobe. He was a stout, jovial-looking man ordinarily, but right now he was only stout.
("The Room With Something Wrong")

Cornell Woolrich

#24. If we dispense with some of our self-made boundaries, India can really take its place in the world as an economic power. It hasn't happened because we, sadly, don't look at ourselves as Indians but as Punjabis or Parsis, unlike the Americans. Don't make such boundaries.

Ratan Tata