“There are a lot of places a writer desperately wants to go but is afraid to. You have to learn not to worry about what people are going to think of you personally.”

“Lineages that focus only on proper-named artists are not only Eurocentric and masculinist but plain boring.”

“An individual painting, it ends on kind of a period. Whereas a body of work ends with a question.”

“I’ve never been someone who could be influenced very easily.”

“We can’t walk in anyone else’s shoes. Maybe the goal—not just of art, but also of being here—is to walk beside one another.”

“I’m not interested in just looking but in having an experience and then expanding from there.”

“I spent my youth in a world of women who were, and who insisted to be, witnesses to the fate of women.”