*Billie Holiday
* Ella Fitzgerald
*Nina Simone
*Sarah Vaughan
* Dinah Washington
* Miles Davis
*John Coltrane
*Charlie Parker
*Duc Ellington
* Comte Basie
Influences littéraires :
*Emily Dickinson
* Walt Whitman
*Langston Hughes
* Maya Angelou
*Toni Morrison
*Zora Neale Hurston
*Alice Walker
*James Baldwin
* Ralph Ellison
*Richard Wright
Influences des arts visuels :
* Romare Bearden
*Jacob Lawrence
* Norman Lewis
*Alma Thomas
*Beauford Delaney
*Elizabeth Catlett
* Samella Lewis
* Betye Sarre
* Foi Ringgold
*Howard Pindell
Influences cinématographiques :
* Spike Lee
*Charles Burnett
*Julie Dash
* Cheryl Dunye
*Ava DuVernay
*Dee Rees
*Barry Jenkins
* Jordan Peele
*Ryan Coogler
* Bottes Riley