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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I feel that art is beyond language. "

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

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

" 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 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" Equal rights for women and queer folks! "

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

" 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. "

" Motherhood is the ultimate call to sacrifice. "

" 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. "