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When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

— Toyin Ojih Odutola

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Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like 'Vagabond' by Takehiko Inoue.

I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.

I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.

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