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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I feel that art is beyond language. "

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

" We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the Internet. But we're still very animalistic. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm big into multifunctional clothing. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My works tends to be erotic. "

" 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. "