"So there’s this new communication in your blood that means something. Don’t know it at first. How to know it? Then are told. Then know it. Then deny it. Deny it. Hate it. Hate yourself. Come to accept it. Have to. But can you ever love it? Can you enjoy it? Is this voice in the blood a new permission? Has it affirmed something deep in yourself you were hot and so desperate, so desperate not to face?"

— Rickey Laurentiis on Lyle Ashton Harris’ “Selections From The Ektachrome Archive, 1986–1996”