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" Beautiful things can happen when you act intuitively and instinctively in a moment of anxiety and do something radical. "

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" I would like to make work for my country, art which is innately Kenyan by being made in Kenya. "

" I love magazines because they're so dispensable, and they're so quickly consumed. In that way, they're quite honest. They're unashamed about how small an amount of time they're trying to keep our attention. "

" One of the things I'm interested in is not just women but the female qualities that are present in everyone. "

" Some people get turned on by my work, and it sells, but what drives me is the process of making it. "

" There are ways to speak that can transform things, which has less to do with authority but is more about resourcefulness and ingenuity. "

" I feel like I've spent a lot of time imagining home and thinking about a dream-like place, as opposed to a real place, because that's not what I was able to do, meaning go home or be home. "

" I believe art is a connection, like passing on a flame. "

" In 'National Geographic,' you always saw pictures of tribal Africa. And here I am, sitting in Nairobi in our suburban house, watching TV and thinking, 'Why is it always going to be these tribal people 'that are the ambassadors of our image? "

" I watched a lot of avant-garde films, like Maya Deren's work, and I love film's technical ability to do things that are impossible in real life. It's related to the way collage allows you to manipulate reality and the hierarchies that are inherent in our awful but amazing world. "

" I've always loved the idea that you think you know what you're looking at from a distance, yet when you come up close, it gets intricate and nutty and obscene and provocative. "

" I feel that art is beyond language. "

" I'm not a documentarian. I'm not a photojournalist. "

" I do all I can to make my world a better place to live in for me and for my kids as well. "

" Our interest is in showing that homophobia is not part of the agenda for a new Africa. "

" While I was a student at The Cooper Union, they discouraged too much of a focus on any one medium, and it helped me try new and different things. "

" We have to redefine what we mean when we say, 'Who are your people?' 'Where are you from?' "

" I juxtapose and slice up reality and fiction quite easily. I'm aware that it is up for grabs and a powerful tool to explain how we take control. "

" Motherhood is the ultimate call to sacrifice. "

" There's a recycling mentality about my work. "

" The medium of film is really wonderful because it can behave in the same way as collage and painting; it can be layered and non-literal. "

" I am fascinated by these ocean-grown folks. On the coast, there's all this cross-pollination of ideas. Someone thinks they saw something. One person's madness is reiterated by another, and a story is born. The rumour becomes a substitute for news. "

" Born Free is an idea that came from a place of deep respect for the delicate cycle of life. How incredible to be able to work with gifted designers who, as mothers, recognize what the devastating loss of a child could mean and how easily that loss can be avoided. "

" I'm big into multifunctional clothing. "

" I am inspired and affected by Aspen, the light and the landscape and the natural world. "

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

" My work is often a therapy for myself - a working out of these issues as a black woman. And a way of allowing other black women to work through this kind of stigmatization as they look through the images and feel how distorted or contorted they might be in the public eye. "

" Being taught to despise your body is being taught to perhaps admire someone else's body more than yours - being taught that your body is good for certain things and not for others. "

" For me, collages manage to - it satisfies all of my madness, like I'm able to make these obsessive things, but then I'm also able to make these very strong statements. I don't know what they mean to other people, but in my mind, they have a very strong particular resonance; there's sort of a power. "

" If I don't have an ability to go the places that I have been invited to show at and to speak at and to feature my talent, well then, I am going to stay here in New York City and work my butt off. "