In sociology, they call it 'code switching.' I can feel just as comfortable in a room full of people who don't look like me because I understand the social cues of class and race.
More Quotes by Amy Sherald
My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights movement was not about you being an artist.'
I grew up in Georgia, and my mom would tell me how to perform and act. So I learned to repress a lot of myself so that other people would feel comfortable.
Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.
I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe.
I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world.
To be human is to be visible.