My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse's 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,' which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka. Rashid Johnson academicamiribaraka share on social
I attempted to do yoga in German, and it was not particularly successful. So at that time, I started thinking about the idea of just movement and how I could move to de-stress. Rashid Johnson attemptgermanidea Change image and share on social
As an artist, I've always felt most comfortable outside of the art supply store. So domestic materials are the ones that most help inform what I'm trying to talk about and our familiarity as a whole - kind of the collective us, I guess. Rashid Johnson artartistcollective share on social
The whole ability to look at the complexity of race and any sort of associated -ism and still find humor, that's a very interesting space. Rashid Johnson abilitycomplexityfind Change image and share on social
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 artartistchoice Change image and share on social
