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"Visual art is very freeing, because it answers only to the eye."
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Nell Irvin PainterThe census keeps counting us by race for purposes of undoing racial ha — Nell Irvin Painter
"The census keeps counting us by race for purposes of undoing racial harm in the past."
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Nell Irvin Painter
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Nell Irvin Painter is an American historian notable for her works on United States Southern history of the nineteenth century. She is retired from Princeton University as the Edwards Professor of American History Emerita. She has served as president of the Organization of American Historians and as president of the Southern Historical Association. She was appointed as chair of the MacDowell board
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"I think that’s the kind of relationship between recognition and black women. That you have to be an optimist to think something’s going to work out and just keep trying because if you concentrate on the really awful actual facts of life, then you’ll just crawl into bed and pull the covers over your head."
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"The idea of beauty being white, that is another enlightenment idea, actually, an 18th-century idea by another German, named Winckelmann, whos the father of art history"
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"Just because you say that things in the 21 century are not the same as they were in the 20th century, doesnt mean that youre saying that were in a post-racial society. We are not in a post-racial society, but things are not like they were in the age of segregation or slavery."
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"We still have slavery in the world today. and two of the areas pinpointed for slavery are Latin America, notably Brazil, and Eastern Asia."
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"This was a new definition. I think theres room in our culture for interesting people who are black and for interesting people who are female and interesting people who are black and female. Theres hardly any room to be interesting if youre old."
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