“I guess … did you ever watch the show Community? Ya know how the school’s mascot is the human being? I mean, I don’t want to be a grey faceless spandex blob like that, but I’d like to just be a human being. Not someone’s message or idea of what I stand for because of what I look like, just a human, how you’d paint me if I were anyone else.” — Gabourey Sidibe
When Painter Sam Spratt asked Gabourey Sidibe how she’d like to be portrayed in his latest piece she said, “I’d just like to be a human being. Not someone’s message or idea of what I stand for because of what I look like, just a human, how you’d paint me if I were anyone else.”
Sam Spratt
While other celebrities for the most, get to represent themselves on the red carpet, one could say Gabourey automatically becomes the face for big, dark-skinned women wherever she goes.
This painting is special in that, we see Gabourey in a way we haven’t previously seen her. There are no gimmicks or metaphors. She’s not standing for a cause or fighting for anything. She’s just Gabby.
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