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I love Monk's song, 'Just a Gigolo.' It's probably a minor song for him, but whenever I hear a recording of him playing it, I'm mesmerized because Monk clearly loved pop music. He took it very seriously and made an amazing thing out of it.

~Glenn Ligon

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Art points to things. It's a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.

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Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race. For example, writers of slave narratives tend to lose their individual voices, as they were expected to stand in for all other voices, which were absent.

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Obama is the first African-American president, and for some people, that means a great deal, and for some people, it means very little.

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I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

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A lot of my work is about text taken to the point of abstraction.

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I don't know if I would describe myself as a political artist.

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I'm a formalist. I'm interested in the history of painting.

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I'm interested in when language fails, when it is opaque.

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I really don't have a clear trajectory at all.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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