I have never really liked gigantic-scale painting. I think that so many artists are seduced by scale - "Well, if I make it that big then it has to go….

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred..

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the Afric….

Power interrupts. Uninterruptible power interrupts absolutely..

I am the greatest marital artist in the world..

There's part of me that is a strict materialist..

That's some f***ing doorman you've got there, Ms. Shugak..

Be bold, and everywhere be bold..

There are days when I double fault..

I got work to do. I got a lot of work to do within myself..

There are some things that you can work on immediately..

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work..

I think that the more people who speak out, and say things and take stands on positions that will better our community, the better off each and every….

Paul Robeson once said that the artist has the responsibility to either help liberate the community or further oppress it. And I think that when Eldr….

We can love completely what we cannot completely understand..

There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream..

Success is always something that you have to recover from..

When you have something to work with, then you fly with it..

Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own..

No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible..

Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings..