Interview with Venice Artist Kwanza
By Rex
Butters
Beachhead: What women have been
most influential in your life?
Kwanza: My mom and my daughter have
probably been my biggest influences in my life. Outside of that, probably Maya
Angelou, Maxine Waters, Oprah Winfrey. Varnette Honeywood has been a big
influence in the arts, and Barbara Weston. My mom and my daughter for their
strength and their faith. Oprah Winfrey has been a big influence for her success
and what she’s done for people around the world. Maya Angelou for her
beautiful words and poetry, and the strength she represents in single women who
bought land here in the Baldwin Hills area, and the Venice area, and the Santa
Monica/Palisades area. Those women, those are my idols. If you could see where
they came from and what they acquired, how they preserved themselves in life.
They were beautiful, they were generous, they were kind, they were strong. Those
are my idols, I hope I’m doing them right.
Posted: Thu - March 1, 2007 at 02:23 PM