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When Making Art Means Leaving the United States
- The black American writer Richard Wright once wrote that black and white Americans were engaged in a war over the nature of reality.
from Salman Rushdie · Imaginary Homelands by Salman Rushdie
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- Their moves are at once personal and driven by a desire to connect; and if these artists do not expect to feel wholly at home anywhere in the world, neither do they assume America is the only, or the best, place to exercise their collaborative gifts.
from The Black Artists Leaving America (Published 2021) by Emily Lordi Manuel Obadia-Wills
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