- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art class was my safe haven.
- Civil Rights Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights movement was not about you being an artist.'
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started school, I would draw pictures at the end of my sentences: a house, a flower, a tree, a bird. Whatever was in the sentence, I'd draw it.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've forgotten a lot of things. I've forgotten how to play the piano and how to speak Arabic, though I studied it for two years.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I blacked out in a Rite Aid. The doctor told me my heart function was at 5 percent. I spent two months in the hospital waiting to have a transplant. For me, that was the end of the world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.
- Paintings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I paint paintings of people.
- Directive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art was not a thing for my family and is still not a thing for my family. My family will not go to a museum unless I say we have to go there. That's why I really feel like it was something I was supposed to do because there was no directive that pushed me in that direction.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until I won the National Gallery Portrait Competition.
- Introvert
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- Nov 07, 2020
Signing autographs is weird. I'm an introvert, so it's been a strain in that way.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people I choose as models have a quality that seems to contain the past, the present, and the future all at once. It's hard to explain. I can look at 100 people in a room but only find it in one person.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a very verbal person.
- Nov 07, 2020