Best Black Art Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.”

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Author:James G. Frazer

“The art of publicity is a black art.”

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Book:The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

“We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.”

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Author:Edward Snowden

“Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.”

Art Black Existence Half Doubt Modern Devil Witchcraft Modern Science Employing Sneer Black Art

Book:Miscellanies

Source: Miscellanies

“Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we in Jamaica were talking about black art. And the idea that there is a role for art in the civil rights revolution and in the successor to the civil rights revolution.”

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Author:Mark McMorris

“If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed If they had taken from the bible only that which is GOOD and thrown away the wicked and absurd If temple domes had been observatories If priests had been philosophers If missionaries had taught useful arts instead of bible lore If astrology had been astronomy If the black arts had been chemistry If superstition had been science If religion had been humanity The world then would be a heaven filled with love, and liberty and joy”

“Casting is really a black art. It's a huge part of directing and it's the most invisible. It's one that people don't really think about or talk about. But you can really destroy your movie by casting it badly before you've shot a foot of film. And yet there are no guidebooks for it, there's no rule book to tell you how to do it. It's all your own experience and your own sensibility and your own intuition.”

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Author:David Cronenberg

“I don't know why people always compare me [ with Amiri Baraka] I was never part of the Black Arts Repertory Theater or the Black Arts Movement; people who claim that I was are wrong. I was downtown. I was living in Chelsea when they were operating in Harlem.”

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Author:Ishmael Reed

“I was roommates with 2 of the guys who were influential in forming the Black Arts philosophy. I called them "goons," and [Amiri] Baraka took offense at that. But if you read his autobiography, the night we went up there for a fundraiser, he talks about how he wished that some violence would happen to us. How do you like Baraka as a gracious host?”

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Author:Ishmael Reed

“The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.”

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Author:Jess Row

“If I choose this platform [The Black Arts Movement] and God validates this platform, I feel like we have to use the hyper-reality to get people closer to [actual] reality. Right now is so special because it's the information age and people just want to be aware and there's no better way of doing that than through art.”

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Author:Kofi Siriboe

“If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, or Richard Wright, they all deal with elements of identity and trying to humanize our experience and our struggle in the world where people have been indifferent to who we are and what we are. It's basically just saying that our lives have meaning.”

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Author:Cheo Hodari Coker

“I know now it's a hashtag and people have various feelings about it, but really if you look at all black art, even in hip-hop, it's all about that I exist and these are my feelings and this is what I feel about the world. It's always been an undercurrent.”

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Author:Cheo Hodari Coker

“Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.”

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Book:The Tombs of Atuan

Source: The Tombs of Atuan

“Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.”

“Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.”

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Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.”

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Author:Thomas Paine

“Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.”

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Author:Romare Bearden

“I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they earn for knowing the black art of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries fall almost unbidden to my tongue, as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words like strengths or squinched, many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps, which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well in the silent, startled, icy, black language of blackberry - eating in late September.”

Source: A New Selected Poems

“The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.”

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Author:Sonia Sanchez

“In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.”

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Author:Jeff Greenfield