I'm often in conversations with people who have learning disabilities, and they talk about how they were teased and perhaps laughed at sometimes as c….

I have to believe that when I finish a project, that I will not only grow as an artist, but as a person..

I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts. I want to be a strong role mo….

If you do the best work you can, the reward is ultimately your self-satisfaction - the sense that you have done the best you can. And then there's th….

All of us have places that we can go where we feel most complete..

A sense of community has always been important to me. I understood very early that I could not grow as an artist or as a person without being connect….

I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to make their own art….

We live in a time when there is an abundance of ways we can express ourselves..

I've always felt that if I worked hard enough and continued to refine my craft, while staying curious about our times and our world, I just might hav….

Make it all about the work. Everything else will follow..

I want kids to understand that making pictures is similar to making music; there are so many instruments and so many tunes that the possibilities for….

I do think it's important to expose kids to artists..

Part of what I'm doing with generations is that I try to express in my work pieces of my growing up years that I can look back on with great fondness….

There's probably more of a struggle to get material and narratives published that really speak to black culture. And that has a lot to do with the me….

I try not to respond with a pep talk, such as, "Everyone has talent, just try, you'll see." I skirt those kinds of answers..

African American writers and artists, by the very nature of what they do, will actually enhance or bring together people in a way that might be very,….

Receiving both the Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award suggests I have succeeded….

I visited the Museum of Modern Art and viewed the exhibition of Picasso's sculptures, and I couldn't help but think about what it would be like to ha….

The process of creating art allows me to learn about the subject I'm illustrating. So, if I want to learn more about plantation life and slavery, I t….

Though the blame cannot be placed entirely on publishers, I do think a more diverse pool of editors would go a long way toward broadening the perspec….

I like to bring a certain sense of humanity and detail to my work, and watercolor allows me to do that. I have fascination and wonder about the line ….