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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" I keep things moving along with a seriously loving, caring, and brilliant man, a fierce group of friends - and really strong coffee. "

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" My works tends to be erotic. "

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

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

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

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" I've always been curious about the things that I'm afraid to look at, that make me embarrassed or bother me. "

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" I feel that art is beyond language. "

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" Often, there's an emphasis in my work, and it's sort of the celebrating of the body. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I'm very much a person that believes that there's something that was introduced into Kenya and Africa as we know it that has made us despise our bodies. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" Equal rights for women and queer folks! "

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

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

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" 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. "

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