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"Artists make work because other artists made work that they appreciate, and they want to be in a conversation with or thought of in the same frame as those artists that they admire."

— Kerry James Marshall

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“Art is a way of thinking about things. It has nothing to do with an innate ability to do anything.”

“For generations of young people, they have to see it as a possibility. So they can start using their minds to further imagine it.”

"A part of what I’m doing is making work that functions in those same capacities, but that centralizes the Black figure."

"It is more important to resolve whatever those deficiencies are and to bring that work, on its own terms, into a space where it can be dealt with differently."

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