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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father owned a small company, called Gundel Electronics, where he did community band radio and some repair stuff.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had a big brick cell phone, before anyone had a cell phone, because he was really just into that kind of thing - communication devices. I grew up between my father's laboratory and my mother's library.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse's 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,' which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been interested in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's work for quite a while. My first introduction to LeRoi Jones was when my mother used to read me the 'Dead Lecturer' poems when I was a kid.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dealing with actors is incredibly complex because they oftentimes are like pieces of clay. They want to be told how you want it done. You have to then decide if you want to be the teller or if you want to give them agency.
- Nov 07, 2020
What I really hoped to do with my work was to at least be able to define my relationship to race.
- Historical
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- Nov 07, 2020
My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to deal with antecedents and art history, which for me go very far beyond just the influence of African-American artists.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father ran a CB radio business. I grew up in a cluttered space that was filled with radios and antennas. It felt alien.
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that turned out to be interesting about CB radios was the ability to call out in the world with anonymity. You choose your handle. Race and class become non-signifiers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I would see shea butter being sold on the street, and I was interested how people were still coating themselves in the theater of Africanism. You see that in dashikis and hairstyles and music.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd begun to collect things that were lying in piles on the floor of my studio. I had run out of space, and I started to build shelves. I turned around one day and realized that that was the vehicle for carrying so many of the things that I was looking at and talking about, so they went from the walls to the works.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an artist, I've always felt most comfortable outside of the art supply store. So domestic materials are the ones that most help inform what I'm trying to talk about and our familiarity as a whole - kind of the collective us, I guess.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I remember there was a really famous book, and it was called 'The People Could Fly.' And so this idea of, kind of like, black characters kind of jumping into space and kind of the challenge that they presented to gravity I thought was really interesting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020