I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

Like I said...fine with me.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others, often art and artifacts that have been obtained by dubious means. But they also manipulate whatever it is they present to the public; hence, until Judy Chicago, in the 1970s ... few women artists were hung in any major museum. Indian artists? Artifacts only, please. Black artists? Something musical, maybe? And so forth.

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.