I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts. I want to be a strong role model for my family and for other African Americans.

I want kids to understand that making pictures is similar to making music; there are so many instruments and so many tunes that the possibilities for how you play are truly limitless.

I've always felt that if I worked hard enough and continued to refine my craft, while staying curious about our times and our world, I just might have something to contribute.

I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to make their own art. Have them experience the process.

Make it all about the work. Everything else will follow.

If you do the best work you can, the reward is ultimately your self-satisfaction - the sense that you have done the best you can. And then there's that piece of how others respond.

I feel the calmest when I'm drawing or when I'm creating images. I love connecting the mind with the hand and producing something - that is very comforting and centering for me.

We live in a time when there is an abundance of ways we can express ourselves.

African American writers and artists, by the very nature of what they do, will actually enhance or bring together people in a way that might be very, very healthy.

I try not to respond with a pep talk, such as, "Everyone has talent, just try, you'll see." I skirt those kinds of answers.

I have to believe that when I finish a project, that I will not only grow as an artist, but as a person.

Where do the words gowhen we have said them?

Science, you don't know, looks like magic.

A parent who cannot provide the basic needs of two children, must not even bear one.

In temples you find religion, but in hearts you find God.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person.

How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.

Over-coaching can be more harmful than under-coaching. Keep it simple!

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses!