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Glenn Ligon

In government they learned their lesson. They don't trust artists anymore. Now the money has to go through arts organizations. But, yeah, back then you could get a grant, and I got $5,000 - a huge amount of money.

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There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that slow you for a minute-give you pause-are good.

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My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

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Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.

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A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that I've used in a lot of paintings. The essay is from the mid-'50s, when he's moved to Switzerland to work on a novel, and he finds himself the only black man living in a tiny Swiss village. He even says, "They don't believe I'm American - black people come from Africa. " The essay is not only about race relations, but about what it means to be a stranger anywhere.

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My mother really didn't come from artists. Her famous quote to me was, "The only artists I've ever heard of are dead. " The pottery classes were meant to be a part of my overall uplift. I knew what it meant to be sent to art classes, but I still didn't know anything about being an artist.

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