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

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

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 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.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

If the forces are intense, (..) almost no company earns attractive returns on investment.If the forces are benign, (..) many companies are profitable. P. 25

That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

I feel like the sport is coming to me.

France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.

Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?

Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

No dignity without distance.

No place is ever the same tomorrow.

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.