I didn’t want a completely passive viewer. Art means too much to me. To be able to articulate something visually is really an important thing. I wanted to make work where the viewer wouldn’t walk away; he would giggle nervously,… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
I think really the whole problem with racism and its continuing legacy in this country is that we simply love it. Who would we… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
One of my earliest memories involves sitting on my dad’s lap in his studio in the garage of our house and watching him draw.… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?' — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings. — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does. — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
I didn’t want a completely passive viewer. Art means too much to me. To be able to articulate something visually is really an important… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
Sugar crystallizes something in our American Soul. It is emblematic of all Industrial Processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White Being equated… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
