I always made stuff but never thought, I'm going to be an artist.

If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.

For me, the '80s were like the drawing by Botticelli of the nine rings of hell.

I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people.

When I was 18 years old, there was no internet and no gay teen nights. Instead, you went to the clubs and talked to grown men and did grown-up things.

I always made stuff but never thought, I'm going to be an artist.