It hasn't come together finally. There's no end to this, an… - Nell Irvin Painter

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It hasn't come together finally. There's no end to this, and it changes over time. My relationship with history as I used to write it, and as I sometimes use it in my work — that was something that took several years, actually, for me to feel comfortable with. And as I continued to wrestle with it and to deal with it visually, it's that I can do whatever I want to the figure; I can do whatever I want with history…

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Nell Irvin Painter (born Nell Elizabeth Irvin August 2, 1942) is an American historian.

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