One of the reasons I paint black people is because I am a black person. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
For black people, everything we do has to be ratified and endorsed by a power structure that is white. And that reinforces… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Blackness has always been stigmatised, even amongst black people who flee from the density of that blackness. Some black people recoil from… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
You don't see black people winning Nobel prizes for physics or economics or any of the industries or institutions that shape the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Part of the history of black people in the western hemisphere, in some ways, has been fleeing from this notion that they… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
For black people who are really dark - and a lot of black people were averse to be dark skinned - it… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
What I preserved in the figures [at Invisible Man] are those white eyes and white teeth, because that's still connected to the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Part of what I am dealing with, with this blackness, is asking the question, "Where are those black people, who are as… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The condition of visibility as it relates to black people was crucial. Connected to that, I've always been interested in science fiction… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
For black people in the western hemisphere, if you can't generate a mythology that creates models of heroism and power out of… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
When art works travel from place to place, what you have is the opportunity to engage with the intellect of another person who has… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I stumbled upon Charles White purely by chance while looking through a book 'Great Negroes, Past and Present' in the library at Forty-Ninth Street… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The lighter the skin, the more acceptable you are. The darker the skin, the more marginalised you become. I want to demonstrate that you… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side, where the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
One of the things I recognized early on, doing whatever studies of black history I have, is that even though black folks were transported… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
If you walk into any magazine store, I guarantee that nine out of 10 covers will feature white, blonde, blue-eyed, slim women because that's… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
For black people who are really dark - and a lot of black people were averse to be dark skinned - it was believed… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the museum were… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
What I hope 'Mastry' ends up doing is completely undermining or doing away with the notion that artists are a savant: that they do… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
My dream was always to be in museums. It's a big and important milestone and a fulfillment of one of my primary ambitions. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
![“What I preserved in the figures [at Invisible Man] are those white eyes and white teeth, because that's still connected to the way in which blackness, in the extreme, has been stigmatized and the way it was often joked that you couldn't see black people in the dark until they had their eyes open…” quote by Kerry James Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/19a/kerry-james-marshall-5157_black_what-i-preserved-in-the-figures-at-invis_2863321.jpg)
