Sublime

or

The freedom of disregard.

Thomas Hirschhorn

the wet blanket of professionalism

race, which wasn’t invented until the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century.

New Museum—

contented concentration

The fact is, “exceptional Negroes” have always been a staple of an apartheid-like educational system that separates the “gifted” from the “normal,” and both from the “naughty” or “underachieving.” Sticks and stones will only break my bones, but words can lift or crush me.

There’s a wonderful freedom in not having to prove anything.