I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I know personally to be the truth. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“I came up in segregated West Baltimore. I understood black as a culture—as Etta James, jumping the broom, the Electric Slide. I understood the history and the politics, the debilitating effects of racism. But I did not understand blackness as… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
