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Kara Walker has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does.
• One of my earliest memories involves sitting on my dad’s lap in his studio in the garage of our house and watching…
• A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill…
• 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…
• Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one…
• I think really the whole problem with racism and its continuing legacy in this country is that we simply love it. Who…
• Sugar crystallizes something in our American Soul. It is emblematic of all Industrial Processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White…
• I didn’t want a completely passive viewer. Art means too much to me. To be able to articulate something visually is really…
• If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you…
• I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or…
• I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to…

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