"Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that."

“We live by promises not by explanations.”

“I make love to the beautiful Maria and you make love to your stick!”

“I'm gonna spread out over America intrude my proud blackness all over the place.”

Source : Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”

“That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.”

Source : "Julie Mehretu paints chaos with chaos - from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park". Interview with Jason Farago, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2013.

“At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?”

“It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny”

“I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one.”

Source : John Gardiner Calkins BRAINARD (1842). “The Poems of John G. C. Brainard. A New and Authentic Collection, with an Original Memoir of His Life. [With a Portrait.]”, p.19

“He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.”