Nell Irvin Painter quotes

This was a new definition. I think there's room in our culture for interesting people who are black and for interesting people who are female and interesting people who are black and female. There's hardly any room to be interesting if you're old. (Nell Irvin Painter)
Our search for understanding in matters of race automatically inclines us toward blackness. View quote
Nell Irvin Painter
We still have slavery in the world today. and two of the areas pinpointed for slavery are Latin America, notably Brazil, and Eastern Asia. View quote
Nell Irvin Painter
the idea of beauty being white, that is another enlightenment idea, actually, an 18th-century idea by another German, named Winckelmann, who's the father of art history. View quote
Nell Irvin Painter
we discover through genetics or the genome or through culture, through migration and so forth, anthropology that racist dont exist, biologically, that you can't box people up in little boxes according to race. View quote
Nell Irvin Painter