I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.

A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.

I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.

In most cases I start off with a sketch. But I'm also thinking about real images: out of National Geographic, out of fashion magazines, out of The Economist, out of Time. I'm making a sketch, but I'm using the existing images that have been put out in the world.

Always acknowledge your position in the food chain... They eat because you grow the food.

Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body.

And luckily, for whatever reason, I've found people who are interested in living with and owning and existing around the DNA of my mind, which is my visual work. I've found collectors who are willing to put money down to live with my work. So I can't criticize the whole mechanism. But I can criticize it as an artist, in spite of the fact that I benefit from it. And there are problems with it.