Kerry James Marshall quote

People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a rhetorical device. When we talk about ourselves as a people and as a culture, we talk about black history, black culture, black music. That's the rhetorical position we occupy.
Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall
Born: Oct 17, 1955

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