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As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.
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When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.
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I am always hesitant to call myself an activist, mostly out of respect for the activists who are using their bodies and voices to protest or activists online who are constantly engaging and educating others.
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My interest in language is steadfast, but I think each project and its accompanying intentions dictate how language must be used.
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I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language.
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I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.
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My art career often feels less like an art career and more like a career in educating, usually by using my body.
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As much as I believe in the capacity for art to create change, and as much as being an artist is physically and emotionally challenging, there is ultimately something a bit comfortable about making art in the comfort of your own home.
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Music is my first love, where my artistic journey began.
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I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central barrier in addressing the problem.
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Children are receptive to talking about gender creativity, confirming the importance of the book as a means to instigate this dialogue at an early age.
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As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my responsibilities post-Trump.
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When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.
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I used singing as a safety measure. I would pay attention to what songs the popular girls liked, learn those songs from the radio or library cassettes, and then accidentally sing or hum these songs in class. This would impress the girls, who would then defend me from the boys.
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When I wouldn't leave home without my blue contacts or when I was bleaching my hair, I didn't have the language to articulate that I was trying to assimilate to whiteness. If anything, I was trying to look normal.
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I would love to see more dialogue around the responsibilities of art consumers - how can audiences better financially support artists we love, artists who are doing the work, so that artists have a more solid foundation upon which to make art?
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Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.
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I have always considered the aesthetic of a project, including press photos, as a means to further the message of the art itself.
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I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.
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Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.
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