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Top 10 Kara Walker Quotes (2025 Update)

Kara Walker Quote: “The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that’s also what the stereotype does.”

1. “The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that’s also what the stereotype does.”

— Kara Walker

Kara Walker Quote: “I don’t think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by history.”

2. “I don’t think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by history.”

— Kara Walker

Kara Walker Quote: “Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and what power is all about.”

3. “Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and what power is all about.”

— Kara Walker

Kara Walker Quote: “There’s no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist – it’s not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.”

4. “There’s no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist – it’s not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.”

— Kara Walker

Kara Walker Quote: “Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.”

5. “Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.”

— Kara Walker

Kara Walker Quote: “If you’re a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, ‘Why are you so angry?’”

6. “If you’re a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, ‘Why are you so angry?’”

— Kara Walker

Kara Walker Quote: “I think really the whole problem with racism and its continuing legacy in this country is that we simply love it. Who would we be without the ‘struggle?’”

7. “I think really the whole problem with racism and its continuing legacy in this country is that we simply love it. Who would we be without the ‘struggle?’”

— Kara Walker

Kara Walker Quote: “A lot of my work has been about the unexpected – that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind of dilemma – that push and pull – is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make.”

8. “A lot of my work has been about the unexpected – that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind of dilemma – that push and pull – is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make.”

— Kara Walker

Kara Walker Quote: “Sugar crystallizes something in our American Soul. It is emblematic of all Industrial Processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White Being equated with pure and ‘true’ it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.”

9. “Sugar crystallizes something in our American Soul. It is emblematic of all Industrial Processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White Being equated with pure and ‘true’ it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.”

— Kara Walker

Kara Walker Quote: “I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors of Southern slavery but with next to no resources, other than some paper and a pen knife and some people she’d like to kill.”

10. “I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors of Southern slavery but with next to no resources, other than some paper and a pen knife and some people she’d like to kill.”

— Kara Walker

Kara Walker Quote: “I’m fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables.”

11. “I’m fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables.”

— Kara Walker

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