* Billie Holiday
* Ella Fitzgeraldová
* Nina Simone
*Sarah Vaughanová
*Dinah Washingtonová
* Miles Davis
* John Coltrane
* Charlie Parker
* Duke Ellington
* Gróf Basie
Literárne vplyvy:
* Emily Dickinsonová
* Walt Whitman
* Langston Hughes
* Maya Angelou
*Toni Morrison
* Zora Neale Hurston
Alice Walkerová
* James Baldwin
* Ralph Ellison
*Richard Wright
Vplyv vizuálneho umenia:
* Romare Bearden
* Jacob Lawrence
* Norman Lewis
* Alma Thomasová
* Beauford Delaney
* Elizabeth Catlettová
* Samella Lewis
* Betye Saar
* Faith Ringgold
* Howard Pindell
Vplyvy filmu:
Spike Lee
* Charles Burnett
*Júlia Dash
* Cheryl Dunye
*Ava DuVernayová
* Dee Rees
*Barry Jenkins
* Jordan Peele
* Ryan Coogler
* Čižmy Riley