You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else..

I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in residence at the ….

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work..

Whatever уоu are, bе а good one..

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.

I started working when I was 9 or 10..

Evie-you-GAH!" Lend shouted, and I looked up at him, surprised..

Because we put ourselves in God’s place, He put Himself in our place..

We're extremely young and have the potential to be anything that we want to be..

The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin….

Nothing is over until there's something more decisive than your own thoughts..

You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time..

I like to make books. To me, it's just as great to have some book of mine be in a flea market as it is to have a picture in a museum..

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization..

I don't work from nature, I work like nature..

God is not He who is, but That which is..

This is your here, this is your now, let it be magical!.

When I went to the Studio Museum in Harlem, there was a type of freedom that existed where I didn't have to think about professors, where I didn't ha….

I’ve tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed..

Let those who like society better have it..

I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed..