Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness and your black presence.

I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

I needed to create something I could take with me wherever I went.

I dont think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.

The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue.

I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down.

It is hard to produce work in New York. You kind of have to center yourself - do some Zen meditation exercises and just focus. It is very distracting, and money, of course, is an issue.

If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.

You know very well what the right choice is, yet you keep making the wrong one.

For good and evil man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Success is not measured by who gets credit. Success is measured by what gets done.

I don't emphasize the whatevs. I say it as if it's truly a toss-away word.

All the Armes of England will not arme feare.

There is not a country on earth whose people don't deserve to be free and safe.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

My audience is going to die before I do.

Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.