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I thought I was going to die when I was 39.

The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett.

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Art class was my safe haven.

My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights movement was not about you being an artist.'

When I started school, I would draw pictures at the end of my sentences: a house, a flower, a tree, a bird. Whatever was in the sentence, I'd draw it.

I've forgotten a lot of things. I've forgotten how to play the piano and how to speak Arabic, though I studied it for two years.

I blacked out in a Rite Aid. The doctor told me my heart function was at 5 percent. I spent two months in the hospital waiting to have a transplant. For me, that was the end of the world.

It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.

I paint paintings of people.

I don't think anybody can create in a space where they don't feel comfortable.

Art was not a thing for my family and is still not a thing for my family. My family will not go to a museum unless I say we have to go there. That's why I really feel like it...

My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until I won the National Gallery Portrait Competition.

Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.

Success, for me, is staying true to who you are and not deviating off a path.

Signing autographs is weird. I'm an introvert, so it's been a strain in that way.

The people I choose as models have a quality that seems to contain the past, the present, and the future all at once. It's hard to explain. I can look at 100 people in a room but only find it...

I'm not a very verbal person.

To be human is to be visible.

In sociology, they call it 'code switching.' I can feel just as comfortable in a room full of people who don't look like me because I understand the social cues of class and race.

Why can't I make up my own characters and paint the people I want to see in the world? I'm depicting the many people who existed in history but whose presence was never documented.

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