Sometimes the mind relives things very clearly for us...There are roads out of secret places within us along which we all must move as we go to touch others.

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.

The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.

You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.

I want to see how life can triumph.

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.

Sometimes the mind relives things very clearly for us...There are roads out of secret places within us along which we all must move as we go to touch others.