"Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places."
"If you're any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements in shapes and colors of where you were."
"The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?"
"You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel."
"You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from."
"You sing on the canvas. You improvise, you find the rhythm and catch it good, and structure as you go along, then the song is you."