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• I think we need to remember...that a lot of energy was put into changing things to get us to the point where we are now. But being where we are now doesn't mean that we don't have to put in the same kind of energy to get us to a place where we ought to be.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Mean, Thinking, Energy

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• I tend to think having that extreme of color, that kind of black, is amazingly beautiful...and powerful. What I was thinking to do with my image was to reclaim the image of blackness as an emblem of power.

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  Hermoso, Poderoso, Pensamiento

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• Si tienes un sueño: Número uno, haz un plan. Y luego ejecuta ese plan. Y habrá fracasos a lo largo de esa línea. No dejes que eso te desanime. Porque el fracaso forma parte del proceso... haz los ajustes necesarios y podrás tener éxito en lo que hagas.

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  Dream, Successful, Numbers

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• Los pintores negros han hecho todo tipo de obras. Es el tratamiento de las formas lo que determina el valor de la obra, no si se les llama artistas negros o no.

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  Art, African American, Black

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• If you're constantly being reminded of the ways in which your history and your narrative as a people were rooted in loss and decay, then you're in deep trouble. Once you make a certain kind of peace with the past, then you should be completely oriented towards speculation about the future.

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  Loss, Past, People

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• It's forcing the issue of perception by rendering an image that is just at the edge of perception, which in someway forces you to look more closely and for you to adjust your vision so you can see in the dark.

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  Dark, Issues, Perception

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.

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  Fighting, Thinking, Museums

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• The first freedom is to be in possession of yourself - to own yourself, to not be subject to the will of somebody else. In a capitalist society, that means having a certain economic wherewithal so that you can do what you wish to do without having to ask permission.

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  Mean, Wish, Economic

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• Parte de la historia de los negros en el hemisferio occidental, en cierto modo, ha sido huir de esta noción de que eran negros. Así que puedo representar un ideal y, con ello, demostrar que no hay nada que temer, nada de lo que huir y que, de hecho, una buena parte de la belleza reside ahí.

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  Running, People, Black

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• No one has a right to occupy the privileged position all the time, so it should be contested. It should always be messy in there.

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  Should, Messy, Position

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• One of the things I recognized early on, doing whatever studies of black history I have, is that even though black folks were transported as slaves, into servitude, when they were carried out of Africa they left empty-handed, but they didn't leave empty-headed. They carried with them the culture they knew, the culture they had, and that culture reconstituted itself in all the places they went.

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  Black History, Culture, Study

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• Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side, where the image is a construction that is meant to engage in a discursive field in order to preform a particular function.

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  Order, Two, Different

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• Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me.

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  Artist, People, Gateways

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• I came in making choices about how I deploy aesthetics and imagery strategically. It seems to me that's the only legitimate way of making work.

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  Choices, Way, Imagery

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• La posición privilegiada de la blancura no permite que alguien con una gota de sangre negra sea considerado blanco, lo que permite que la blancura sea una categoría bastante pura mientras que la negritud tiene que absorber una realidad expansiva de representación.

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  Reality, Blood, White

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• The moment you introduce difference into a museum, then the privileged space is contested, and under the most ideal circumstances what all artists want is the chance to be competitive. That's what I think the museum is supposed to be.

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  Thinking, Artist, Differences

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• Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.

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  People, Imagination, World

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• Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the museum were perfectly satisfied with the narrative they were constructing.

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  Museums, People, Asking

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• If you look at the image [ Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], it treads on a kind of popular stereotypical image of the black figure, in both its flatness and slightly comic edge. To take that image as a starting point and to render it in a proto-classical medium, like egg tempera, and then use a repertoire of classical compositional devices to make the picture was a way of setting up an engagement with art history.

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  Art, Self, Eggs

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• I don't see those paintings as abstractions, especially because they are emblems of the inkblot. They aren't smashed together; they are constructed shape-by-shape, layer-by-layer, like any other picture.

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  Together, Shapes, Layers

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• For black people in the western hemisphere, if you can't generate a mythology that creates models of heroism and power out of the mythology that you had, then that means that somehow the mythology you had was not only feeble and weak, but that you are ultimately a powerless people. That's a notion that, I think, that can't be accepted.

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  Media, Pensamiento, Gente

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• There's a beauty shop companion called School of Beauty, School of Culture at the Birmingham Museum of Art. I got an email that said a couple had a guerrilla wedding in front of that picture. They slipped into the museum with a preacher and had their wedding ceremony in front of it. It turns out that the woman is a beautician and the man is a barber, they had seen that picture, and they said it was the perfect place to get married.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Art, Couple, School

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• What I preserved in the figures [at Invisible Man] are those white eyes and white teeth, because that's still connected to the way in which blackness, in the extreme, has been stigmatized and the way it was often joked that you couldn't see black people in the dark until they had their eyes open or were smiling.

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  Eye, Dark, Men

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• Sometimes when I can't communicate that I'm frustrated, I'll just grab my guitar and I can play out that emotion and be able to cope with whatever is going on. So even being able to, like I said, share this gift with so many other people, it's definitely very therapeutic. It helps me just to focus and to be able to kind of get out those emotions that I'm having without reacting in such a way that's not acceptable in society.

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  Play, Guitar, People

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• I decided that the whole idea of what it means to be an artist was that somehow you are ontologically oriented toward poverty : "As an artist, you don't make money." I had to figure out some kind of way to guarantee that I'd be able to continue doing the work that I wanted to do, whether I made money from the work I was doing or not.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Mean, Artist, Poverty

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