Kara Walker quotes

There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist. It's not like becoming a doctor or something. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist. (Kara Walker)

Expectations on the performance of race and gender are simultaneously high and low, depending on who is looking or asking. I prefer to keep all the options in the air, to try and better understand the conundrum that inequality creates---not just in culture, but internally.

Kara Walker

There is I suppose, historically, this seminal moment in the lives of African Americans where one becomes black. Frantz Fanon and everyone talks about it. There is a moment when you go from subject to object and I guess that was my moment...

Kara Walker

Sugar crystallizes something in our American Soul. It is emblematic of all Industrial Processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White Being equated with pure and ‘true' it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.

Kara Walker

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables.

Kara Walker

Kara Walker

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Occupation: African Artist
Born: November 26, 1969
Quotes count: 5
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