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Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.31,0:00:12.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cranbrook Academy of Art is where I did my\Ngraduate studies.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.30,0:00:16.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a bit shocking, I think, at the beginning,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.43,0:00:19.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I was the only minority there.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.92,0:00:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is in 1988.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.84,0:00:25.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just considered myself another artist
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.78,0:00:28.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out there amongst my peers.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.97,0:00:31.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think it was difficult because it was\Nthe first time
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.45,0:00:35.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I was confronted with my identity as\Na black male.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.61,0:00:43.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mother told me when I was, like,\Neight years old,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.06,0:00:46.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the complexity of what I would have to deal with.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.47,0:00:51.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So knowing made me think,\N"I've got to build a thick skin."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.23,0:00:55.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I've got to be able to operate in a world…"\N[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.45,0:00:58.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"...that could work against me\Nas opposed to for me."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.14,0:01:00.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do I do with that?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.96,0:01:06.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have been racially profiled.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.54,0:01:11.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm walking home with my portfolio\Nfrom teaching.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.14,0:01:15.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am pulled...surrounded by\Nundercover cops saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.85,0:01:17.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Lie down on the floor"--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.10,0:01:19.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the convenience store was robbed\Ndown the street.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.30,0:01:22.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That has been my reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.58,0:01:27.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Get it together up here.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.74,0:01:30.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Psychologically, I have to really get it together.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.88,0:01:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I just have to get quiet--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.24,0:01:35.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to put it in perspective
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.43,0:01:37.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to, sort of,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.01,0:01:40.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not sort of lash out into rage.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.80,0:01:45.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if I do, lashing out for me is\Ncreating this.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.08,0:01:49.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of that becomes the impulse to create.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.50,0:02:00.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't ever see the "Soundsuits" as fun.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.50,0:02:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They really are coming from a very dark place.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.78,0:02:12.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The "Soundsuits" hide gender, race, class.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.80,0:02:17.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they force you to look at the work\Nwithout judgment.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.16,0:02:22.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, we tend to want to categorize everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.21,0:02:25.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We tend to want to find its place.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.52,0:02:32.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do we, sort of, be one on one with something\Nthat is unfamiliar?