Throw a little shade when you need to.

I love to laugh, I love color, I love texture, and I love creativity, so I was always inspired by people who incorporate those things in their work.

Some people are beyond help, just accept that.

Look at me - a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.

I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground because it scares people too much and it's too much for people to take on. Especially when a culture is held hostage by fear and hysteria and fundamentalism.

You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity.

As a kid, I was searching for my tribe of other people who saw through the matrix. Even as a kid I could never buy into the status quo. I just thought it was a joke; I couldn't believe other people weren't laughing at it.