I don't really agree with the role model thing. People are always saying that athletes shouldn't do X or Y because they are role models.

I was really interested in the fact that blacks have high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes at a higher percentage than the rest of the population. That didn't stay very aggressively in the book, but that's how it started. I began to document these moments as support for this other thing I was thinking about, and then the moments themselves began to take over.

I’m not investigating race as much as I’m investigating intimacy.

I don't really agree with the role model thing. People are always saying that athletes shouldn't do X or Y because they are role models.

One of the things that I think about is: How do you make moments that float, transparent? Moments that could just float away. How do you make a body accountable for its language, its positioning? Why not make a body accountable for its language?

I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.

Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood.