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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" Motherhood is the ultimate call to sacrifice. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Equal rights for women and queer folks! "

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

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

" 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. "

" I feel that art is beyond language. "

" '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 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 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. "