The Invisible Presence of Blackness in American Art
For the most part, Sol niger is equated with and understood only in its nigredo aspect, while its more sublime dimension-its shine, its dark illumination, its Eros and wisdom-remains in the unconscious.
Dr. Stanton Marlan • The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology Book 10)
The contemplation of this black presence is central to any understanding of our national literature and should not be permitted to hover at the margins of the literary imagination.
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
When making art, we create a mirror in which someone may see their own hidden reflection.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
Black being in the wake as consciousness and to propose that to be in the wake is to occupy and to be occupied by the continuous and changing present of slavery’s as yet unresolved unfolding.
Christina Sharpe • In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
In the developing American empire, the relationship between visuality, racialization, and domination is most arguably realized with American Indian subjects.