“I realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.”

If I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.

I try to think about life.

I’d never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.

I wanted to build up a name for myself.

I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

There are about 30 words around you all the time, like ‘thread’ or ‘exit.’

The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you’ve got to realize that influence is not influence. It’s simply someone’s idea going through my new mind.

Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.

Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.

I start a picture and I finish it. I don’t think about art while I work.

I don’t think about art when I’m working. I think about life.

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

It’s a huge gap in security, it’s a huge problem we’ve had with our immigration system for many years.

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.

Many times I heard Imam Ahmad saying (when asked to give his opinion) on controversial scholarly issues ‘I do not know.’

I’m a young dude, and there ain’t too many people who are doin’ it like I’m doin’ it. There ain’t no others in my lane – I am the future of this music.

He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.