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….

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….

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….

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

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….

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….

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

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..

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….

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

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

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,….

I like to talk about my challenges as they relate to all of us, and I try to leave them with a sense of what it feels like to succeed at something an….

If I were to give myself a pat on the back, it would be for sticking with bookmaking as my primary way of expressing myself over the span of fifty ye….

Drawing creates its own kind of private space. Coupled with certain interests that I want to speak to in my art, it's really kind of a safe haven for….

I feel the calmest when I'm drawing or when I'm creating images. I love connecting the mind with the hand and producing something - that is very comf….

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..

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 ….