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" Motherhood is the ultimate call to sacrifice. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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? "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I feel that art is beyond language. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Equal rights for women and queer folks! "