Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying..

Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was a little uncomfort….

What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for..

Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art..

The American sense of the importance, the fundamental importance of the black-white dichotomy, comes out of societies founded in the era of the Afric….

You need to do some work even if you have the talent. So I just went the way that was easier, the way I knew what to do, but I have always had the pl….

Before science, before the eighteenth century, religion answered the questions, and so in the nineteenth century for instance there was a real jostli….

Science is a truth that is true no matter what, no matter when and for all time and science as the kind of gospel truth replaces the gospel, which wa….

In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them" can be people from the near….

Grigsby's marvelous exploration-a deep, wide, and beautiful inquiry into Sojourner Truth's use of technology-features more of her photographs than ha….

We live in a world in which it's harder to talk about the American in the singular, so we're a multi. We have several different people who represent ….

I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?.