How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.

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

Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing for my supper, to make art, beautiful and powerful, that adds and reveals; to beautify the mess of a messy world, to heal the sick and feed the helpless; to shout bravely from the roof-tops and storm barricaded doors and voice the specifics of our historic moment.

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.

I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me

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.