For black people in the western hemisphere, if you can't generate a mythology that creates models of heroism and power out of the mythology that you ….

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….

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 ….

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

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

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….

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….

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….

Music is the universal language, it evokes an emotion in all of us. That, we can all look at each other and we may not speak the same language, but t….

In some ways you still have to buy your freedom, but that's because you live in a social structure that's organized around capital, and capital does ….

Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you ….

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 really just want to be an inspiration. I'm a regular guy, that had a dream, that came from a small town, that wanted to play guitar and just liked ….

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….

If you have a dream: Number one, make a plan. And then execute that plan. And there will be failures along that line. Don't let that discourage you. ….

What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration..

I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention..

A lot of stuff that I dealt with - music was my serenity, like kind of my safe place, my haven that I would just use in order to really just get away….

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….

I just thought someone has to figure out how to break through that barrier and create a narrative for a black super hero story to unfold at the same ….

In [Ralph] Ellison's case, it's more psychological than it is phenomenal, and it's conditioned by anger, animosity, and lack of desire to engage with….