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Glenn Ligon Quotes

I was in the 1993 Whitney Biennial and the 1994 'Black Male' show at the Whitney, and I've never seen such vicious press. Twenty plus years later, critics who hated that Biennial have come to Jesus and decided it was a really important, seminal show that they misunderstood.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1960

Topics

Black Important Misunderstood Never

You can't just stick someone's name on a headphone that doesn't know anything about sound.

Name Someone You Know Sound Stick

I didn't know if I should tell people that Johnny Cash had an affair with his sister-in-law while his wife was pregnant. How much does the public need to know about a performer?

Wife People Know Need Tell Cash

I think I've read all of W.E.B. Du Bois, which is a lot. He started off with comprehensive field work in Philadelphia, publishing a book in 1899 called 'The Philadelphia Negro'. It was this wonderful combination of clear statistical data and ethnographic data.

Matthew Desmond

Work Book Think Data Philadelphia

I mostly wear hats or put scarves over my head because I like to have a low profile when I go out.

Hats Go Over Out Head Low

I discovered that I love being on stage in high school.

Sterling K. Brown

Love School High School Stage High

A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.

Speak Strong Political Out Made

The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'

Heart Imagination Creative Writing

You just have to tell your authentic stories, and hopefully, it resonates. Whatever your story is, you just have to tell it authentically.

Story You Whatever Tell Just Your

Why commit technological suicide by restricting the flow of talent into the United States?

Talent Suicide Why Flow United

A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn't like that for me. I didn't think of it as a job or a career - it was just something that was constant.

Music Job Me Start Think Musicians

I'm really anxious not to repeat what I've done before, to keep pushing and learning.

Learning Done Repeat Keep Pushing

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Expectations Think Poverty Wildlife

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