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“All Me--that's how I painted it. Each person in the picture has a role to play. I didn't want to play any of the parts, but I had to be somebody. I couldn't walk around and be nobody, so I became all of them. It's like I was more than one person inside myself. In fact, I think if I hadn't decided to play the all me role on the chain gang, I wouldn't have made it. Taking that stance--all me--saved me. Everybody thought I was crazy.”
― Winfred Rembert, Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South