My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.

When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.

If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.