Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.

Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was a little uncomfortable with passionate people, but he was against slavery.

Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art.

Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.

What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for.

In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them" can be people from the near east like Turks or Muslims or North Africans, all of whom might well be considered white in the United States.

The American sense of the importance, the fundamental importance of the black-white dichotomy, comes out of societies founded in the era of the African slave trade, so societies like ours, that is to say the western hemisphere, the Caribbean and so forth, we share a lot in common.