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The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.

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Carrie Mae Weems

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.

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Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

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It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central to [my photographs]. . . This invisibility - this erasure out of the complex history of our life and time - is the greatest source of my longing.

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Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing for my supper, to make art, beautiful and powerful, that adds and reveals; to beautify the mess of a messy world, to heal the sick and feed the helpless; to shout bravely from the roof-tops and storm barricaded doors and voice the specifics of our historic moment.

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The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

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How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.

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The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.

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