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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I use femaleness as another lens, so I don't even think all my creatures are women; I just think that I bring out the femaleness in them. "

" My works tends to be erotic. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Football has that wonderful gift of being accessible. You don't need much gear, a coach, or a lifeguard. You just need your imagination, strong legs, and a couple of friends, and it's a game. "

" The ocean is the source of life. We all come from there. I think about these one-celled creatures, and I think about the planet. It is related to my obsession with biology, even if it's only a layperson's obsession. The way I visualise what's at the bottom of the ocean is very much to do with how I feel when I'm swimming in the sea. "

" When I'm making a collage, there are a lot of things about it that are violent. "

" 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. "

" Gold and precious gems are, in many places, the one form of wealth a woman can use to protect and enhance herself within the elaborate structure of patriarchy. "

" I really believe in dreaming and making things from nothing. "

" If something hurtful enters your body, you create something beautiful to protect yourself from it. That's my philosophy. "

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

" 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. "

" When certain things reach a tipping point, and you know people's lives are in danger, you have to decide that it's time to speak up, and you have to say something loud and clear. "

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

" So many a time, I would find myself stuck in my studio while, in another country, my exhibitions were opening and I was being celebrated. "

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

" I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest to me. I'm interested in the way these fields have helped us understand how we are human and why we are human. "

" 'Misguided Little Unforgivable Hierarchies' is a piece that I did around the time that I was very frustrated and angry with the fact that the U.S., where I live, had decided to pull itself into another war. I was really angry. "

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

" I think there is something about countries and nations that is hard to define. And, in fact, that's probably why we create such massive boundaries - because it's so slippery where they begin and where they end. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "