Top 35 Quotes by Rashid Johnson

About Rashid Johnson

These are some quotes by American author Rashid Johnson Photographer, who was born in 1977.

As an undergrad at Columbia College in Chicago, I came across 'Boondocks,' and then I watched the 'Boondocks' television show.

As an undergrad at Columbia College in Chicago, I came across 'Boondocks,' and then I watched the 'Boondocks' television show.

Rashid Johnson

My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.

My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.

Rashid Johnson

When I was young, I remember feeling a real thirst for opportunities around the arts, for learning about how artists function and how institutions work.

When I was young, I remember feeling a real thirst for opportunities around the arts, for learning about how artists function and how institutions work.

Rashid Johnson

Oh, yeah, I'm all about ritual.

Oh, yeah, I'm all about ritual.

Rashid Johnson

My father had a big brick cell phone, before anyone had a cell phone, because he was really just into that kind of thing - communication devices. I grew up between my father's laboratory and my mother's library.

Rashid Johnson

My father owned a small company, called Gundel Electronics, where he did community band radio and some repair stuff.

My father owned a small company, called Gundel Electronics, where he did community band radio and some repair stuff.

Rashid Johnson

I'd begun to collect things that were lying in piles on the floor of my studio. I had run out of space, and I started to build shelves. I turned around one day and realized that that was the vehicle for carrying so many of the things that I was looking at and talking about, so they went from the walls to the works.

Rashid Johnson

I don't have any other skills. Some artists say that to mean that their embodied passion for art gave them no choice. I say it, very specifically, to say that I really didn't have any other options.

I don't have any other skills. Some artists say that to mean that their embodied passion for art gave them no choice. I say it, very specifically, to say that I really didn't have any other options.

Rashid Johnson

The thing that turned out to be interesting about CB radios was the ability to call out in the world with anonymity. You choose your handle. Race and class become non-signifiers.

The thing that turned out to be interesting about CB radios was the ability to call out in the world with anonymity. You choose your handle. Race and class become non-signifiers.

Rashid Johnson

I've always had an interest in complicating the way that we perceive the black character, whether it's the black academic or scholar or activist or black intellectual.

I've always had an interest in complicating the way that we perceive the black character, whether it's the black academic or scholar or activist or black intellectual.

Rashid Johnson

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