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

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" 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 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. "

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

" 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? "

" Motherhood is the ultimate call to sacrifice. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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