I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.

Every single line means something.

I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.

The more I paint the more I like everything.

Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

Everything you attract into your life is a reflection of the story you believe and keep telling yourself.

Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

He [Christ] came to bring peace, to be sure, but the peace that He came to bring must be built upon the complete destruction of the power of darkness.

Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

Depending on which side you're on, maybe the police are too objective and need to be a bit more subjective.

Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman's right to make her own choices about her body and her health. That is not negotiable and should not change city by city or state by state.

Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?