"I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life"

“For a while I felt like I spoke a different language than my immediate family. It wasn't until my teens that I met and got to know better members of my extended family (my cousin Alma in particular) that self- identified as artists. Something in us clicked together; in the way we thought, in the language we chose to use, in what we enjoyed. She helped me see and appreciate a lot both about myself and my loved ones.”

Source : "LatinoBuzz Interview: E.J. Bonilla on His Hot-Blooded Performance in ‘The House That Jack Built’" by Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. November 21, 2015.

“Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.”

“Most baby books also tend to romanticize the mother who stays at home, as if she really spends her entire day doing nothing but beaming at the baby and whipping up educational toys from pieces of string, rather than balancing cooing time with laundry, cleaning, shopping and cooking.”

“I think that the Kehinde Wiley brand is something that I'm working towards expanding and to inclusion.”

“I remember stealing some pic n' mix when I was seven; when I got out of the shop, I burst into tears.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I know how to make money and I'll make it.”

Source : From an interview with the "Tennesseean" newspaper reporter Robert K. Oermann, 1991.

“Clothes should just be like a beautiful setting for a jewel: They should offset you.”

“We are extremely vulnerable because we take too much time to implement the necessary measures. This is a painful process. When you go through a painful process - make it as short as possible”