Best Of: Jon Batiste's 'Beethoven Blues' / Visual Artist Mickalene Thomas

3000.184 - 3029.671 Mickalene Thomas

Oh, yes, and I love it now. Before, I grew up as a kid not looking like her and always covet the fact that I was like, why don't I look like my mother? And I had a cousin who looked like her and they used to always mistake my cousin for my mother's daughter, which really kind of like messed me up as a child. Yeah. But now when I look in the mirror, I was just like, ah, there you are.