Lacora Stephens
Pasadena
“It is alive and well, it’s just not being used in the rooted foundation of what it was created for. I think that the power behind woke is what is incorrect right now.”
Robert Mitchell
Glendale
“Absolutely not. We have a clown in the White House and he’s there because they see us, they know that we’re woke now.”
Alex Gathungu
Los Angeles
“It’s not dead because there is always something new that you can be woke about. There’s always something controversial.”
David Lowery III
Harlem
“Some people are woke, some people really aren’t. You don’t see people boasting that they’re woke, it’s something that you really know about internally.”
Compiled by Cynthia Gibson at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
