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I love the flexibility of saying, Today we're making 50-foot paintings, and we're going to have to join hands and figure out how that's going to work. But in the end, it's a possibility.
Kehinde Wiley
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Kehinde Wiley
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 28
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