I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.
I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.
Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.
An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions.
Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.
As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.