Kehinde Wiley Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire to throw away the old rules.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Father, Artist, Past

  Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

• My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Mother, Father, Texas

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• [My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Growing Up, Father, Parent

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• At age 20 I went to go find my father in Nigeria. And after much toil, I finally figured out exactly where he was. And there's something about seeing your father for the first time - my mother destroyed all pictures of him.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Mother, Father, Age

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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