Kehinde Wiley Quotes

By and large, most of the work that we see in the great museums throughout the world are populated with people who don't happen to look like me.

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• By and large, most of the work that we see in the great museums throughout the world are populated with people who don't happen to look like me.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
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