I was born in St. Louis and lived in Pittsburgh for a bit, before my family moved to Nigeria, where they're from. We lived there for three or four years and came back to the States when I was about ten. I realised that I'd gone from place to place not fitting in. The thing that helped me fit in when moving around and not having a ton of friends was that I could make art. That was the through-line.
Babatunde AdebimpeI don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing.
Babatunde AdebimpeThe feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.
Babatunde AdebimpeIf anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.
Babatunde Adebimpe