The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

When a sister or brother from the street drops the phrase “no doubt” on you, the effect is often more interrogative than affirmative. What sounds like passive agreement is instead architectonic punctuation. When “no doubt” follows your utterances, a verbal frame of accountability has been build around your claims of veracity. Far from marching lockstep, “no doubt” becomes your respondent’s way of letting you know that everything you say, while duly noted, is being held in suspension until the speaker has proven themself reliable beyond a shadow of a doubt.