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Rather than say art is art and life is life, I like to say that they're joined and inextricable.

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The public schools in our neighborhood were so bad that the teachers in the school said you shouldn't send your kids here. My mother called around and found a school that was willing to give both me and my brother scholarship money. It's a classic story about black parents wanting more for their kids than they had for themselves.

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Is there such a thing as black art? Or are there just artists who are black?

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Language controls how you are perceived by others, and in that sense, it is a prison.

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Black and white is so familiar. It's how we see the printed word in books, so it's kind of neutral in a way. Yet it's ironic that black and white is so charged socially, what with its association with race.

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Doors have an immediate familiarity. They're everywhere. They're scaled to our bodies, so there's something human about them.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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