GD: How do you stay hungry enough to achieve the things you want and fulfill your personal goals?
JH: I really don’t like the metaphors of hunger or thirst - I actually use those terms pejoratively b/c it implies that there’s a sort of animalistic or instinctual (read: thoughtless and motivated by self-preservation) drive towards what I do. If that was my angle, I would have stayed in my old job as a legal assistant and gone to law school. My primary concerns are to be content, to push the boundaries of the world around me that I’m in the position to push and to create in ways that question. If there is an instinct, it’s an emotional and mental one so a metaphor closer to that would be more fitting I think.
from our interview with artist and trailblazer Juliana Huxtable. Words by Giselle Defares.
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