Quotes About African American Art

#1. What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of improvisation and spontaneity. You find that in both basketball and jazz.

John Edgar Wideman

#2. We do have Museums of African American Art in the United States, and there is a National Museum of Women's Art. However, I believe Latinos are best served by displaying their art next to the art of other groups, particularly North American, European, and even Asian artists.

Mari Carmen Ramirez

#3. Pregressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensity social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation

Angela Y. Davis

#4. Do everything you're told. Be a good cheerleader. And never, never say, 'It's not so bad.' Say 'You are almost there!' And say it a lot.

Madonna Ciccone

#5. She switched from ecstasy to embarrassment at about Mach five.

Kevin Hearne

#6. A good swimming pool could do that - make the rest of the world seem impossibly insignificant, as far away as the surface of the moon.

Emma Straub

#7. I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

Jacob Lew

#8. You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one. Read him well, and he will help you much; for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world, and paint it with your pen.

Louisa May Alcott

#9. A man's religious choice didn't matter in the least if it was his path to decency and remembering his fellow man.

Heather Graham

#10. It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same time frightening. The best ones, to me, have a life of their own.

Luther E. Vann

#11. that I have read many books, but to little purpose, for want of good method; I have confusedly tumbled over divers authors in our libraries, with small profit, for want of art, order, memory, judgment.

Robert Burton

#12. Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

#13. Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Jim Rohn

#14. It's always a pleasure to see you," I told him, my voice dripping with sarcasm. "Remember, red lights are for quitters.

Molly Harper

#15. For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.

John Edgar Wideman

#16. It's all about the quality of the fabric, how soft it is and feeling comfortable in what you're wearing.

Kellan Lutz

#17. Sometimes love started with bewildering passion and then grew deeper through friendship; sometimes it started with deep friendship and surprised everybody-especially the two best friends-with it's sudden romantic fire. Either way, love seemed both meant to be and a miracle.

Elizabeth Chandler

#18. Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Toni Morrison

#19. Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

#20. I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to deal with antecedents and art history, which for me go very far beyond just the influence of African-American artists.

Rashid Johnson

#21. I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts. I want to be a strong role model for my family and for other African Americans.

Jerry Pinkney

#22. I feel like because black Cuban artists don't have the kind of pressure to thematize race in the way that African-American artists do, there's more space for them to do their art without having to discuss it in terms of racial identity.

Rachael Price