When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.

You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it.

Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.

I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.

Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document.

Neutrality and boredom are the weapons of the state.

I came in as an established artist. People were hiring me for what I did and for who I was. I think that has given me a vast amount of leeway; I feel so lucky that I came in that way.

One thing about Guantánamo, beyond anything else, is the commitment against all odds to allow Americans to view themselves as the good guy, no matter what the situation is.

I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true.

You start like a white blanket and you have to preserve that, and each year that you live chips away at your essential value.

You have to go through the fires to be tested by faith.

Money is only a human invention.

It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew who I was. I was going to be famous if it killed me.

All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength.

Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

God looks out for fools and babies.

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote.