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

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" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

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

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" 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. "

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