Home / Quotes / Quote by Morgan Parker

Quote by Morgan Parker

“Mickalene [Thomas] is an artist that I have admired for a long time. So much of her work inspires me - I spend time looking at her work when I'm writing. I feel like we're working toward the same themes, and I see our work in conversation, whether we know it or not.”

Quote by Morgan Parker

Author

Morgan Parker is an individual born in 1974 with an unknown profession. Detailed information about him is limited. more

You May Also Like

“The book [There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?] is quite complex, and I was worried that it would be marketed as one-sided or flat, and I knew that Mickalene's [Tomas] work would be able to encompass all the many states of being that are in the book.”

Book States Would Be Able Beautiful Complexes Worried Flats Beautiful Things One Sided

Author:Morgan Parker

“I wanted [the book 'There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?'] to be colorful. I wanted it to be evocative. I wanted a figure of a black woman that the reader has to confront.”

Book Wanted Beautiful Black Figures Reader Beautiful Things Black Women Colorful

Author:Morgan Parker

“I think often if people don't have a lot of experience with a particular type of person or a particular type of brain, they can make dangerous assumptions. That's one of the reasons that I'm so interested in contradicting and troubling held thoughts about black women.”

People Ifs Thinking Persons Reason Black Brain Dangerous Particular Type Assumption Black Women Contradicting

Author:Morgan Parker

“I don't claim to say, "All black women are like me," because they're not.”

Black Claims Like Me Black Women All Black

Author:Morgan Parker

“I really hope that people feel permission to talk about their own troubles, but also to celebrate themselves.”

People Feels Trouble Celebrate Permission

Author:Morgan Parker

“Sometimes I feel as though I'm trying to take a hit for the team so that other people then can move forward. I'm like, "Look, I just laid out all of my stuff, so what's the worst that can happen?".”

People Feels Trying Looks Sometimes Happens Moving Stuff Team Worst Moving Forward

Author:Morgan Parker

“Since the election [of Donald Trump], I've been thinking about a lot of theory. Lots of [Michel] Foucault and [Karl] Marx, thinking about different systems, thinking about power. Trying to figure out what I can take and learn from history as a tool for getting through whatever is happening right now, which feels very significant and major.”

Thinking Feels Trying I Can Different Figures Theory Trump Right Now Majors Happenings Tools Election Significant Systems Thinking

Author:Morgan Parker

“There's something about us using the word fascism and thinking about, "What is it? What does it mean, and what are the tenets of it?".”

Thinking Mean Doe Fascism

Author:Morgan Parker

“I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it.”

Thinking Happened Folks

Author:Morgan Parker

“I think there's something that's fascist [in Donald Trump's election], and something that I think we could probably learn from, in terms of the energy in the world right now.”

Thinking World Energy Term Trump Right Now Election Fascists

Author:Morgan Parker