You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.

I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.

Anyone can fly. All you need is somewhere to go that you can't get to any other way. The next thing you know, you're flying among the stars.

Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.

When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt.

I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.