David C. Driskell

I always said, you have to have a goal and an objective in life.

— David C. Driskell

That emphasis, from my parents, was always, "if you want something different from this" - they didn't say "better than this," because…

— David C. Driskell

We were told, no, you don't do. There was this high standard of morals and a sense of responsibility. That didn't mean…

— David C. Driskell

There was no real gender definition in the sense of how you treat people in those days with gender differences. You avoided…

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My students used to say, one such as Mary O'Neal, that I identified the students by their boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. That was the…

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Mary O'Neal used to say that I was teaching her course in disguise, as she said "in cultural disguise." What she meant…

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Personally, I think that my father's ministry does have some effect on one. I perhaps thought I wasn't listening that well, but…

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When I became a professional and fully understood what was going on, I knew that with all the love and care and…

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I know my grandfather drank occasionally socially, what we call "taking a sip." And my father never touched the bottle. He condemned…

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James Porter said to me once, when I was talking about painting, he said, well, that's fine, he said, but you have…

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I established relationships with so many of those Iran students that went on for years.And they were so different from American students.…

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I remember an experience once of a young man in our home who was gay. We just assumed it, based on his…

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It was my notion that teaching had to be thorough, it had to be well done, and it had to connect to…

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I always - I knew from day one , in college, that I wanted to be a teacher .But I don't think…

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When I became an adult, I had absolutely nothing against drinking alcohol. Many of my friends drank. I would often make wine…

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Even when I became cognizant of this societal problem in this country, I asked my father and my mother if they knew…

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My parents were not formally educated. Both were cognizant of the importance of education. The teachers and ministers were the role models,…

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I think my criticism of the Pentecostal tradition that I heard with my sister's church was that it wasn't always audible. You…

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My sister was like my surrogate mother here, in Washington, with very much of the same persuasions as my mother. Even when…

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I hadn't had any course work in ceramics. I had no courses in art education but I wasn't going to let this…

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I think I got from my father and my mother a sense of morality, of the do's and don't's in society; the…

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There was this judgmental sense of what was good and what was bad in my father's words. You couldn't necessarily shut the…

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In 1951 I took my first art course. And one day I looked over my shoulder and there was this tall gentleman…

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I grew up with a sense of tolerance. I don't know that there was any talk about gender differences. It was respect…

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There was a young man in our community who said he wanted to be a minister, and my father was trying to…

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