You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

My only experience with American things is through movies.

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.