Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes

Somehow, whenever we think about race or blackness in relationship to art, we always come in kind of nervous. We always think someone's about to be punished or accused of something.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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• Somehow, whenever we think about race or blackness in relationship to art, we always come in kind of nervous. We always think someone's about to be punished or accused of something.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
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