Adrian Piper

Racism is a visual pathology. … To the extent that the primary foundation of racism is visual, it is commensurate with sexism.  Some people are discriminated against because they have breasts, while others are discriminated against because they have woolly hair.  If you happen to have breasts and woolly hair, you are in double trouble.”

[Maurice Berger, ‘Interview with Adrian Piper,’ in Art, Activism, and Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage, ed. by Grant H. Kester, 1998, p. 228.]

 

Adrian Piper, The Mythic Being: Sol’s Drawing # 3, 1974