- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black art' was and that it should embrace black history and black culture. There were all these rules - I was shocked, when I found it in a book, that it even existed, that it would demarcate these artists.
- Equated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White being equated with pure and 'true': it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
- Situation
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.
- Black History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen people glaze over when they're confronted with racism, and there's nothing more, you know, damning and demeaning to having any kind of ideology than people just walking the walk and saying what they're supposed to say and nodding, and nobody feels anything.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020