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Black women artists play an important role in commenting on and shaping the discourse around the world we live in.

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Let’s make this fun. Why can’t black women have fun? Why do they always have to wear the same horribly cut polyester business suit? What is the point?

Magazines that are crumbling because they’re getting yellow?

“I like to think of my work as being reactionary to some extent.

I wanted to overturn the concept that blacks were always represented as victims. I want to deconstruct stereotypes. I want the stereotypical representations of women turning upside down, for their empowerment.

I’d just had my first kid and I thought, What’s my legacy?

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