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.

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.

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

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.

The stillness of the waters is only drowned out by the sound of your heartbeat.

Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of meAnd it starts from the heart 'til it reaches my outer me

Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless.

This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.

I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

Be patient. Life will offer you another chance as soon as you find calm within, for abundance is born out of calmness.

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.