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• ‟ Why can't I make up my own characters and paint the people I want to see in the world? I'm depicting the many people who existed in history but whose presence was never documented.

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• ‟ I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.

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• ‟ I want all types of people to look at my work and see themselves, just like I watch a Reese Witherspoon movie as a black woman and can empathize with her because we have had to internalize whiteness in that way to survive.

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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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• ‟ I paint paintings of people.

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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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• ‟ When I found photography, I found this other kind of portraiture of black families and black people who were photographing themselves or having themselves photographed in ways they wanted to be seen.

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• ‟ Michelle Obama is extraordinary, but she is also the kind of woman that exists in a way that is - she's a hundred percent relatable to all kinds of people, all genders all around the world.

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• ‟ A lot of the artists that people equate my work to, I didn't find out about until after graduate school.

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