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  • Is there such a thing as black art? Or are there just artists who are black?
    - Glenn Ligon
  • Literature has been a treacherous site for black Americans because literary production has been so tied with the project of proving our humanity through the act of writing.
    - Glenn Ligon
  • I was in the 1993 Whitney Biennial and the 1994 'Black Male' show at the Whitney, and I've never seen such vicious press. Twenty plus years later, critics who hated that Biennial have come to Jesus and decided it was a really important, seminal show that they misunderstood.
    - Glenn Ligon
  • The Carrie Mae Weems photograph 'Blue Black Boy,' I thought, was fantastic.
    - Glenn Ligon
  • Black and white is so familiar. It's how we see the printed word in books, so it's kind of neutral in a way. Yet it's ironic that black and white is so charged socially, what with its association with race.
    - Glenn Ligon