I didn’t want a completely passive viewer. Art means too much to me. To be able to articulate something visually is really an important thing. I want…

- Kara Walker

There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure ou…

- Kara Walker

I think really the whole problem with racism and its continuing legacy in this country is that we simply love it. Who would we be without the 'strugg…

- Kara Walker

If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?'

- Kara Walker

I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors of Southern…

- Kara Walker

The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does.

- Kara Walker

I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by history.

- Kara Walker

Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and what power is…

- Kara Walker

A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind…

- Kara Walker