I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life.

It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it.

I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny.

I think that we need to make it our goal to define freedom for ourselves.

We kind of have to rewrite our own stories and our own ways of being free.

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

Sometimes I feel as though I'm trying to take a hit for the team so that other people then can move forward. I'm like, "Look, I just laid out all of my stuff, so what's the worst that can happen?".

In my experience when I do try to avoid something, it makes its way into the work anyway. To be in front of it and just make friends with it is easier for me.

Аrt movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil.

I really hope that people feel permission to talk about their own troubles, but also to celebrate themselves.

Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.

The true call of liberation of women is not in taking off their clothes, but taking off their prejudices.

Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery" ~ Snarky comment of Clive from "The River Swimmer" (pg 47)

People with power listen less carefully, and have difficulty taking into account what others already know.

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

Maybe he murdered Myrtle

Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.

I love my BlackBerry, I love my Apple Mac, I love technology.

It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

The Israeli regime is a tool in the hands of Zionists to control the Middle-East and the entire world.