I don't keep up with the Joneses, I am the Joneses..

Start small and with your own money..

They will love me for that which destroys me..

The image is an image..

God hides things by putting them near us..

I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas..

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

I'd like to think of myself as somebody who has a voice for liberating female sexuality..

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

Let the world feel your compassion: Help save kidnapped Yazidi females!.

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

I am not an African. I am an American..

Don’t get hung up on the female thing. The art is not about that..

Politics is a highly tribal business..

No one survives life..

I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954..

Charge for something and make more than you spend..

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..