American - Artist | 1960 -
So much of my work has been about disappearing.
Glenn Ligon
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One of the interesting things about quoting in an artwork is that there is a repeated confusion about who is speaking - one essentially becomes the author of a quote one uses.
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Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race. For example, writers of slave narratives tend to lose their individual voices, as they were expected to stand in for all other voices, which were absent.
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Race is not something inherent to one's being: One does feel more or less colored, depending on the situation.
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Rather than say art is art and life is life, I like to say that they're joined and inextricable.
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The public schools in our neighborhood were so bad that the teachers in the school said you shouldn't send your kids here. My mother called around and found a school that was willing to give both me and my brother scholarship money. It's a classic story about black parents wanting more for their kids than they had for themselves.
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Is there such a thing as black art? Or are there just artists who are black?
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Language controls how you are perceived by others, and in that sense, it is a prison.
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Black and white is so familiar. It's how we see the printed word in books, so it's kind of neutral in a way. Yet it's ironic that black and white is so charged socially, what with its association with race.
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Doors have an immediate familiarity. They're everywhere. They're scaled to our bodies, so there's something human about them.
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