Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions.

As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.

Difficult times revel true friends but also the unfaithful in your life. Be attentive always, but especially during tough times.

There is a way to flow and cooperate with universal laws which can be beautiful and kind.

Without overcoming the obstacles on the path, how can you get to the top of the mountain?

Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?

If you can't find the next McDonald's, I'll find the next McDonald's. But it's vital to be with people who with looking for 'em, because they do exist. They are created.

Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.

The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the origin of civilization.

I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.