I'm a draftsperson. And also, I really respond to love.

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I was so well loved by my mother that if people have any expectations of me I really don't notice because I'm hardest on myself.

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Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.

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Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken' identity, so…

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One of the things I noticed when I worked at Vibe was that backstage at a fashion show, they always referred to the black models as "black girls." I …

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People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.

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I think Northern California is the most beautiful place on earth. And I adore New Orleans, but there's something about the air in SF, for instance. I…

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Images are really powerful. People fall in love with images, and as a way of falling in love with someone because they're like an image.

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For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again and again, but w…

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