The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.
Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.
The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?
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.
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.