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Theatre sets and lighting influenced my later work … I liked a certain kind of theatrical feeling to my installations.

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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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