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.

We live in a world in which it's harder to talk about the American in the singular, so we're a multi. We have several different people who represent the United States, so in that sense whiteness, the salience, the importance of whiteness is kind of tamping down some.

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

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

I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?

Before science, before the eighteenth century, religion answered the questions, and so in the nineteenth century for instance there was a real jostling between science and religion over the truth and this is why Darwin was so controversial.