"Visual art is very freeing, because it answers only to the eye."

"This was a new definition. I think there's room in our culture for interesting people who are black and for interesti…"

"I think that’s the kind of relationship between recognition and black women. That you have to be an optimist to think…"

"Our search for understanding in matters of race automatically inclines us toward blackness."

"The whole point of defining races is mostly to put people down, and so those needs change over time."

"The census keeps counting us by race for purposes of undoing racial harm in the past."

"We still have slavery in the world today. and two of the areas pinpointed for slavery are Latin America, notably Braz…"

"Before desegregation, before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, all those laws, exclusionary laws, were meant to keep Negr…"

"I live in Newark, which was heavily - actually bulldozed in the 1960s in urban renewal. And we think of urban renewal…"

"The idea of beauty being white, that is another enlightenment idea, actually, an 18th-century idea by another German,…"