I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central to [my photographs]... This invisibility - this erasure out of the complex history of our life and time - is the greatest source of my longing.

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.

Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday)

Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism... Postmodernism looked radical, but it wasn't. As a movement it was profoundly liberal and became a victim of itself. Precisely at this historical moment, when multicultural democracy is the order of the day, photography can be used as a powerful weapon toward instituting political and cultural change. I for one will continue to work toward this end.

Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.