Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic..

In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some of this range in colo….

The first freedom is to be in possession of yourself - to own yourself, to not be subject to the will of somebody else. In a capitalist society, that….

I don't see those paintings as abstractions, especially because they are emblems of the inkblot. They aren't smashed together; they are constructed s….

Sometimes when I can't communicate that I'm frustrated, I'll just grab my guitar and I can play out that emotion and be able to cope with whatever is….

Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me..

The condition of visibility as it relates to black people was crucial. Connected to that, I've always been interested in science fiction and horror f….

My own personal sound is really progressive. It's like a mixture of gospel, pop, neo-soul, R&B. It's like a huge gumbo. If you're eating gumbo you gr….

I want to create music that you can just vibe to. Put in your car and just you know like you roll all the windows up and you're like dancing and you ….

I want people to understand that this is a very calibrated image [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], where point by point, very….

I came in making choices about how I deploy aesthetics and imagery strategically. It seems to me that's the only legitimate way of making work..

Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the museum were p….

Just like in the art museum, and notions of beauty and pleasure, if the hero is always a white guy with a squared jaw or pretty woman with big breast….

No one has a right to occupy the privileged position all the time, so it should be contested. It should always be messy in there..

Comics also led a lot of young people to science fiction..

What I preserved in the figures [at Invisible Man] are those white eyes and white teeth, because that's still connected to the way in which blackness….

One of the things I recognized early on, doing whatever studies of black history I have, is that even though black folks were transported as slaves, ….

Part of what I am dealing with, with this blackness, is asking the question, "Where are those black people, who are as dark as the description of a y….

The moment you introduce difference into a museum, then the privileged space is contested, and under the most ideal circumstances what all artists wa….

Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side, where the image is….

You can describe [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self] as a manifesto of sorts. I saw it as a pivotal turn, a work that really led ….