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

" I'm big into multifunctional clothing. "

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

Wangechi Mutu

" 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? "

Wangechi Mutu

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

Wangechi Mutu

" '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. "

Wangechi Mutu

" 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. "

Wangechi Mutu

" 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. "

Wangechi Mutu

" My works tends to be erotic. "

Wangechi Mutu

" 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. "

Wangechi Mutu

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

Wangechi Mutu

" 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. "

Wangechi Mutu

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

Wangechi Mutu

" 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. "

Wangechi Mutu

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

Wangechi Mutu

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

Wangechi Mutu

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

Wangechi Mutu

" 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. "

Wangechi Mutu

" I feel that art is beyond language. "

Wangechi Mutu

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

Wangechi Mutu

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

Wangechi Mutu

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

Wangechi Mutu

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

Wangechi Mutu

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

Wangechi Mutu

" 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. "

Wangechi Mutu

" 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. "

Wangechi Mutu

" 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. "

Wangechi Mutu

" 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. "

Wangechi Mutu

" 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. "

Wangechi Mutu

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

Wangechi Mutu