"It took me some time to understand my water lilies, " the artist is quoted in the catalog as saying.

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It took me some time to convince them.

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Even Keith Boykin, whom I have known for some time, took me to task.

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It took some time, but in the year 2000 the FBI started visiting me in prison.

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