Wangechi Mutu Quotes

#1. Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body.

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#2. A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.

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#3. Always acknowledge your position in the food chain ... They eat because you grow the food.

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#4. In most cases I start off with a sketch. But I'm also thinking about real images: out of National Geographic, out of fashion magazines, out of The Economist, out of Time. I'm making a sketch, but I'm using the existing images that have been put out in the world.

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#5. What is Africa, anyway? Even I don't know what Africa is, entirely. But I know that it's not some of these simplified sound bites you hear in America.

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#6. I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.

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#7. I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.

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