There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something … - Kehinde Wiley

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Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment.

Kehinde Wiley

There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something to be said about allowing the powerless to tell their own story.

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