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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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" I'm big into multifunctional clothing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My works tends to be erotic. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" '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. "

" I feel that art is beyond language. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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