Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me.

Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.

I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.

No one has a right to occupy the privileged position all the time, so it should be contested. It should always be messy in there.

I came in making choices about how I deploy aesthetics and imagery strategically. It seems to me that's the only legitimate way of making work.

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.

In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some of this range in color is the legacy of white supremacy.

The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry.

I want people to understand that this is a very calibrated image [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], where point by point, very little is left to chance.

Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.

I really just want to be an inspiration. I'm a regular guy, that had a dream, that came from a small town, that wanted to play guitar and just liked playing. I want to encourage people.

Learning the difference between God's intervention, the devil's mischief, and PMS can lead to increased happiness.

So this didn't scare you, didn't it???So you want something scary...???

If you don't know what to do, do what you know and soon, what you're supposed to do will feel more appealing.

The never-ending ache of love and sorrow.

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire women will like him.

Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else.

Success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it... Err in the direction of kindness.

I believe the democratic transformation in Iraq will lead to change in Middle East.

No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley

I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!