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

— Nell Irvin Painter Interview with NPR (2010)

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

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

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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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