The privileged position of whiteness doesn't allow for someone with one drop of Negro blood to be considered white, which allows whiteness to be a fairly pure category while blackness has to absorb an expansive reality of representation.
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. - Kerry James Marshall
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.
- Kerry James Marshall
I want to create music that you can just vibe to. Put in your car and just you know like you roll all the windows up and you're like dancing and you … - Kerry James Marshall
I want to create music that you can just vibe to. Put in your car and just you know like you roll all the windows up and you're like dancing and you …
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… - Kerry James Marshall
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…
Music is the universal language, it evokes an emotion in all of us. That, we can all look at each other and we may not speak the same language, but t… - Kerry James Marshall
Music is the universal language, it evokes an emotion in all of us. That, we can all look at each other and we may not speak the same language, but t…
If you have a dream: Number one, make a plan. And then execute that plan. And there will be failures along that line. Don't let that discourage you. … - Kerry James Marshall
If you have a dream: Number one, make a plan. And then execute that plan. And there will be failures along that line. Don't let that discourage you. …
In [Ralph] Ellison's case, it's more psychological than it is phenomenal, and it's conditioned by anger, animosity, and lack of desire to engage with… - Kerry James Marshall
In [Ralph] Ellison's case, it's more psychological than it is phenomenal, and it's conditioned by anger, animosity, and lack of desire to engage with…
I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention. - Kerry James Marshall
I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.
In some ways you still have to buy your freedom, but that's because you live in a social structure that's organized around capital, and capital does … - Kerry James Marshall
In some ways you still have to buy your freedom, but that's because you live in a social structure that's organized around capital, and capital does …
Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you … - Kerry James Marshall
Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you …
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