"The public schools in our neighborhood were so bad that the teachers in the school said you shouldn'..." — Glenn Ligon

The public schools in our neighborhood were so bad that the teachers in the school said you shouldn't send your kids here. My mother called around and found a school that was willing to give both me and my brother scholarship money. It's a classic story about black parents wanting more for their kids than they had for themselves.

Glenn Ligon Artist • American