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My intent was to transform a negative, demeaning figure into a positive, empowered woman … a warrior ready to combat servitude and racism.

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In Black culture, as far as I know, women [always] worked.

Growing up, especially girls, they like to wear costumes and dress up and pretend to be other things, so that just seemed natural to me.

If you’re an assemblage artist, you don’t throw away anything.

Anything that has to do with the arts is hard living.

Wherever I go, I say: ‘What’s the alternative religion?’ because every country has it.

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The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

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There is a Lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.

Thomas Ford

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

Mahatma Gandhi

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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