- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- American Women
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.
- Mask
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can recall that nobody ever went out the door that wasn't dressed nicely, even though it was the Depression. I particularly remember on Sunday, the day we all went to church, if you didn't have it together, you kind of stayed in the house.
- Reason
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason why I began making quilts is because I wrote my autobiography in 1980 and couldn't get it published because I wanted to tell my story, and my story didn't appear to be appropriate for African-American women.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What has not changed is people are still doing whatever they think they can get away with. I think there's still a lot of advancement for people, generally speaking, to learn to let other people live in the world with freedom.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were people who would complain about their jobs, and my mother would walk away from that job. I liked that a lot about her. She was a very, very creative woman, and eventually, she stopped working outside the house, and she just had her own customers whom she made clothes for.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black women have never embraced feminism. They didn't embrace it in the '50s and '60s; they're not embracing it now. That's not new. I think it's a tendency among women in general not to be supportive of each other.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is a form of experience of the person, the place, the history of the people, and as black people, we are different. We hail from Africa to America, so the culture is mixed, from the African to the American. We can't drop that. It's reflected in the music, the dance, the poetry, and the art.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Different people were complaining, and I remember saying, 'Why don't we just demonstrate?' The Whitney was the first.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time people struggle, they survive, they do better, and then they forget, and they end up back where they started from.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020