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Nell Irvin Painter Quotes

born 1942 United States

Nell Irvin Painter (born Nell Elizabeth Irvin August 2, 1942) is an American historian.

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Visual art is very freeing, because it answers only to the eye.

Our search for understanding in matters of race automatically inclines us toward blackness.

The whole point of defining races is mostly to put people down, and so those needs change over time.

Interview with NPR (2010)

The census keeps counting us by race for purposes of undoing racial harm in the past.

Interview with NPR (2010)

We still have slavery in the world today. and two of the areas pinpointed for slavery are Latin America, notably Brazil, and Eastern Asia.

Interview with NPR (2010)

This was a new definition. I think there's room in our culture for interesting people who are black and for interesting people who are female and interesting people who are black and female. There's hardly any room to be interesting if you're old.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nell Irvin Painter (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.