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Those In The Margins Are Always Trying To Get To The Center, And Those At The Center, Frequently In The Name Of Tradition, Are Trying To Keep The Margins At A Distance.

I Was A Mimic When I Was A Child. I Mimicked The Teacher And Made Friends That Way, Actually. That Was A Very Subversive Activity, Because I Was A Goody-goody Who Never Got In Trouble. But If I Went Off In The Corner And Mimicked The Teacher, People Loved It.

I Think That Art Is Supposed To Be Ahead Of The Times.

You Know If We Were To Look Back And How We Were In 1955 Living In Jim Crow, Living In Segregation, Living In Segregated Schools, It's Hard To Believe That It Was America, But It Really Was.

They Say That Art Should Stand The Test Of Time. Life Lasts A Limited Amount Of Time. Mountains And Trees And Earth Will Outlive Human Beings, But We Don't Know If They Will Be Here Always. Art Does Outlast The Life Span Of Its Maker. Art Should Communicate To An Increasing Circle Of Strangers-people Who Do Not Know The Artist, But Come To Know The Work, And Through The Work, Come To Know Something About The Humanity Of The Artist That Rings With Their Own Humanity.