When State Way Gardens and The Robert Taylor Homes were being torn down, it seemed like a perfect opportunity to use that as a backdrop for the development of a super hero narrative.

Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.

I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.

No one has a right to occupy the privileged position all the time, so it should be contested. It should always be messy in there.

I came in making choices about how I deploy aesthetics and imagery strategically. It seems to me that's the only legitimate way of making work.

Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me.

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.

In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some of this range in color is the legacy of white supremacy.

The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry.

I want people to understand that this is a very calibrated image [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], where point by point, very little is left to chance.

Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.

According to the Bible, every man has a past, present, and future

He feels the word close enough to absorb it

The only possible match for someone who doesn't know how to receive is someone who doesn't know how to give.

Actually, I was prone to random acts of stupidity. I considered it to be one of my talents.

Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.

The problem with Republicans and Conservatives is we attack each other.

I share no man's opinions; I have my own.

At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water

If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?

The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.