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" Art class was my safe haven. "
Art
Class
Haven
" 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. "
Family
Feel
Me
" I blacked out in a Rite Aid. The doctor told me my heart function was at 5 percent. I spent two months in the hospital waiting to have a transplant. For me, that was the end of the world. "
End
World
Waiting
" I don't think anybody can create in a space where they don't feel comfortable. "
Think
Create
Feel
" Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world. "
You
Bend
Imagination
" I'm not a very verbal person. "
Verbal
Very
Person
" I'm painting the paintings that I want to see in museums. And I'm hopefully presenting them in a way that's universal enough that they become representative of something different than just a black body on a canvas. "
Body
Enough
Painting
" 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. "
Feel
Race
People
" I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create. "
People
Tell
Paint
" I paint paintings of people. "
Paint
People
Paintings
" I probably shouldn't curse as much as I do. "
Curse
Much
" I thought I was going to die when I was 39. "
Going
Thought
Die
" It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see. "
Find
See
People
" I've forgotten a lot of things. I've forgotten how to play the piano and how to speak Arabic, though I studied it for two years. "
Forgotten
How
Piano
" I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe. "
Breathe
Create
Want
" 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.' "
You
Father
Doctor
" My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until I won the National Gallery Portrait Competition. "
Competition
Me
Mother
" Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype. "
See
Bigger
I See
" Signing autographs is weird. I'm an introvert, so it's been a strain in that way. "
Introvert
Been
Signing
" Success, for me, is staying true to who you are and not deviating off a path. "
Path
Off
Me
" The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett. "
Influence
Me
Artist
" The people I choose as models have a quality that seems to contain the past, the present, and the future all at once. It's hard to explain. I can look at 100 people in a room but only find it in one person. "
Look
Quality
People
" To be human is to be visible. "
Visible
Human
" 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. "
Black
Kind
People
" When I started school, I would draw pictures at the end of my sentences: a house, a flower, a tree, a bird. Whatever was in the sentence, I'd draw it. "
Bird
Flower
House
" 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. "
History
My Own
Want
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