Don't let a culture or society's rules define who you are; you define who you are.

Don't take no as a full stop, treat it like a comma.

What is right can never be impossible.

As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.

When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best way to look at our present.

People assume thoughts and processes about you that may have nothing to do with you whatsoever, but they make political assumptions and assertions about who you are based on your choice of partner.

I can't live a lie. I can't run from my life.

When something comes from within, when it is a part of you, you have no choice but to live it, to express it.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.

Patience mimics the power of infinity.

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory.

By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by great hopes and brave promises.

Empathy cannot by definition oppress anyone.

I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.