Art is a form of experience of the person, the place, the history of the people, and as black people, we are different. We hail from Africa to America, so the culture is mixed, from the African to the American. We can't drop that. It's reflected in the music, the dance, the poetry, and the art.

Every time people struggle, they survive, they do better, and then they forget, and they end up back where they started from.

Different people were complaining, and I remember saying, 'Why don't we just demonstrate?' The Whitney was the first.

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