Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body.

I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.

I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.

A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.

What is Africa, anyway? Even I don't know what Africa is, entirely. But I know that it's not some of these simplified sound bites you hear in America.

Always acknowledge your position in the food chain... They eat because you grow the food.

Every Christian has an opportunity to be successful

The only way to see true reality is in solitude. One of the tragedies of human existence is that reality cannot be shared. What's real to you may not be to someone else.

Then, things get hard, because once you know magic exists, you have to decide whether to be the bystander, or the magician … and we were all born to be magicians.

Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.

There's bad and then there's EDDY CURRY BAD.

YES we have a soul but it's made of lots of tiny robots

The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

I never liked being photographed. I just happened to be good at it.

Weakness never got anyone anywhere.

I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.