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Renee Cox Quotes

b. 1960

Renee Cox (born 1960) is a Jamaican-American artist, photographer, lecturer, political activist and curator. Her work is considered part of the feminist art movement in the United States.

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Black women artists play an important role in commenting on and shaping the discourse around the world we live in.

Let’s make this fun. Why can’t black women have fun? Why do they always have to wear the same horribly cut polyester business suit? What is the point?

Magazines that are crumbling because they’re getting yellow?

“I like to think of my work as being reactionary to some extent.

I wanted to overturn the concept that blacks were always represented as victims. I want to deconstruct stereotypes. I want the stereotypical representations of women turning upside down, for their empowerment.

I’d just had my first kid and I thought, What’s my legacy?

I thought, I don’t want to do that. I want something that’s lasting, that has some longevity to it. I like my work and I have things to say with it.

I don’t want to do fashion anymore.

I was told in school that we were all created in a likeness of God. So, I felt no issue with representing myself as the Virgin Mary.

Are you fucking kidding me? Who cares?

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Renee Cox (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.