They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

I paint my own reality.

Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.