People say don't stare. Through the photos, not only do I stare, but I allow viewers to stare at the subject, to see things that they cannot see with a casual glance.

Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to see, to be seen.

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think quickly when making [portraits].

As you focus on the greatness of God, the difficulties of life will dissolve.

Kauai is kind of my place where I go to get centered. Its always my place to come back and feel normal again.

An injustice to one is a threat made to all

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

Medicine in the future will give everyone the ability to become their own best healer.

I respect anyone who's honest to themselves and able to bring that into their work in an entertaining fashion.

I'm happy about the fact that my audience is very open to new music. They're dying for new music. So all I got to do is get up there and show them what I'm doing, and they go oh yeah, I like that.

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.

Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me.