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• ‟ The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett.

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• ‟ My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights movement was not about you being an artist.'

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• ‟ It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.

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• ‟ Art was not a thing for my family and is still not a thing for my family. My family will not go to a museum unless I say we have to go there. That's why I really feel like it was something I was supposed to do because there was no directive that pushed me in that direction.

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• ‟ Success, for me, is staying true to who you are and not deviating off a path.

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• ‟ In sociology, they call it 'code switching.' I can feel just as comfortable in a room full of people who don't look like me because I understand the social cues of class and race.

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• ‟ I grew up in Georgia, and my mom would tell me how to perform and act. So I learned to repress a lot of myself so that other people would feel comfortable.

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• ‟ My brother dying changed me. I didn't realize how strong I was until I lost my brother.

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• ‟ I was at all-white schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade, so I wanted to feel what it was like just to be me and not, like, Black Amy.

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• ‟ When people ask me about color in my work, I tend to say that it came from spending a lot of time in Panama.

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