That doll looks more like a black man than me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.
I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies.
Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here.
It's every little girl's dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It's amazing.
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.
They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smiths; that's wonderful, but that doesn't represent everyone. There's a Russell Crowe... well, you know, there's a black Russell Crowe.
Barbie is just a doll.
I don't think of people as black or white. It's a question of are they photogenic or not? I don't think anyone says, 'Let's book her. She's black.' I think they say, 'Let's book her. She's good.' We've come that far.