As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.

- Kalup Linzy

When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

- Kalup Linzy

Sometimes you divorce a part of yourself to save yourself emotionally.

- Kalup Linzy

I remember when I first started putting things on the web and people were writing about it. I totally didn't keep up with what was going on because I…

- Kalup Linzy

I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, li…

- Kalup Linzy

Every artist's world is an individual experience and no one thing can prepare you. You have to go in and go where those roles lead you - just allow i…

- Kalup Linzy

Sometimes I just cringe. I can feel the emotion, that whole anxiety of being in this new world that I sort of evolved into. I would just do it, put i…

- Kalup Linzy

You can talk yourself out of doing something if you start to think about, "How would this person see it, or that person see it?" So sometimes it's al…

- Kalup Linzy

If you want to be somewhere, you should go to that place and check it out.

- Kalup Linzy