Аrt movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil.

Sometimes I feel as though I'm trying to take a hit for the team so that other people then can move forward. I'm like, "Look, I just laid out all of my stuff, so what's the worst that can happen?".

I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it.

I guess the only thing I'd say is it ['There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?'] shouldn't be read as "Beyoncé is not beautiful."

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

I don't claim to say, "All black women are like me," because they're not.

I try to convey what it feels like and sounds like and smells like and looks like inside of my particular skin, to move through the world as a black American woman in her mid-twenties.