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“Jean loved silent movies becaues they were like cartoons. I think that he felt that even in life we should be walking around with a word-blloon above our heads -- you can see this in his art. He always kept watch for any black characters but, or course, they only appeared as servants, if at all.”

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Book:Widow Basquiat: A Love Story

Source: Widow Basquiat: A Love Story

“I loved to spoil him and he always appreciated expensive things, as if consuming them would make him valuable. ... He said that he was making tons of money now. Jean drew himself up straight and said, "I am famous just like I told you I would.”

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Book:Widow Basquiat: A Love Story

Source: Widow Basquiat: A Love Story

“Jean-Michel is full of fears, especially when he is all coked up. He is afraid that he will be a flash in the pan. He is afraid that the KKK is going to kill him because he is getting so famous and he is black. He installs an elaborate alarm system in the loft. He thinks the CIA is going to murder him.”

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Book:Widow Basquiat: A Love Story

Source: Widow Basquiat: A Love Story

“Jean told me that Madonna had been there to visit him the week before I came. Madonna, he said, had asked him to take her on a shopping spree. He asked me why I never asked him to do this and I answered that it never occurred to me to ask him for such a thing. Then I said, "Will you take me on a shopping spree?" And he said, "No, I'm completely broke from Madonna's shopping spree.”

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Book:Widow Basquiat: A Love Story

Source: Widow Basquiat: A Love Story

“At night Suzanne lies in her bed listening to her father play trictrac with his friends who have also come to Canada as Palestinian refugees. Sometimes, she sneaks down, watches them, and her father pulls her out of the shadows.”

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Book:Widow Basquiat: A Love Story

Source: Widow Basquiat: A Love Story

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