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Quotes and Black Art | Thursdaysº

Jafari Joseph

Jul 23, 2026

Quotes and Black Art

Your Curated Art Museum

“Come for the art, stay for the quotes.”

“It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy; it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all—but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.”

— N. K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, 2010

Quotes and Black Art

Thursday, July 23, 2026 (week 30)

All that glitters ain’t gold.

4. “The American Dream” (1964) by Faith Ringgold

Harlem, New York-born Faith Ringgold (1930 - 2024)—painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, writer, teacher, lecturer, activist and pioneer in the use of quilts to tell stories—on being authentic:

“You cannot—should not—ever make something as an artist (or even as a writer) that is outside of your experience. I am Black, and I am a woman. There it is.”
- Faith Ringgold

5. “A Mother’s Lullaby” (2021) by Darlington Dike Ike

Darlington Dike Ike—a graduate one of the top art schools in Nigeria, Auchi Polytechnic’s School of Art and Industrial Design (SAID)—on art being an extension of the artist:

“My art is merely an extension of who and what I am. I can only sculpt, paint or produce my experiences. For that, I thank God.”
- Darlington Dike Ike

6. “Hoodratgurl” (2011) by Deborah E. Roberts

Austin, Texas-born, mixed-media artist, Deborah E. Roberts (b. 1962)—whose work has been exhibited internationally and is found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem; LACMA, Los Angeles; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston—on vulnerability:

“I want the same thing for Black girls that white girls receive . . . I want Black girls to know, just because they appear mighty doesn't mean they can’t be vulnerable.”
- Deborah E. Roberts

"And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it."

- Habakkuk 2:2

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July 22 - Keith Sweat
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