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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.