The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry.

Comics also led a lot of young people to science fiction.

I came in making choices about how I deploy aesthetics and imagery strategically. It seems to me that's the only legitimate way of making work.

[My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there was a broad range of possibilities and fairly unlimited utility for a black figure that didn't have to comprise its blackness in order to preserve a place in the field of representation.

What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration.

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.

I think we need to remember...that a lot of energy was put into changing things to get us to the point where we are now. But being where we are now doesn't mean that we don't have to put in the same kind of energy to get us to a place where we ought to be.