I had an amazing instructor, Joseph Gotto , who, as a painter, spoke to me as it - he didn't condescend.

Women are expected to identify gender as a starting point. Ethnicities are expected to identify that as a location. Is it ever possible for the artist to imagine a state of absolute freedom? That was my call to arms.

There's something really cool about being able to fly to South Africa and watch one of the most talented African footballers wearing a shoe on the field.

What I love in art is that it takes known combinations and reorders them in a way that sheds light on something that they have never seen before or allows to consider the world in a slightly different way.

I have a lot of problems with Western European easel painting.

I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.

When I look back at my paintings, they don't give me a sense of where I was when I first met that guy. They don't give me a sense of what I felt like when I first saw that original source material. They give me a sense of the world that I'm trying to create. And we all just have to deal with that.