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• ‟ If I don't have an ability to go the places that I have been invited to show at and to speak at and to feature my talent, well then, I am going to stay here in New York City and work my butt off.

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• ‟ Born Free is an idea that came from a place of deep respect for the delicate cycle of life. How incredible to be able to work with gifted designers who, as mothers, recognize what the devastating loss of a child could mean and how easily that loss can be avoided.

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• ‟ I would like to make work for my country, art which is innately Kenyan by being made in Kenya.

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• ‟ There's a recycling mentality about my work.

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• ‟ My work is often a therapy for myself - a working out of these issues as a black woman. And a way of allowing other black women to work through this kind of stigmatization as they look through the images and feel how distorted or contorted they might be in the public eye.

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• ‟ I watched a lot of avant-garde films, like Maya Deren's work, and I love film's technical ability to do things that are impossible in real life. It's related to the way collage allows you to manipulate reality and the hierarchies that are inherent in our awful but amazing world.

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• ‟ Often, there's an emphasis in my work, and it's sort of the celebrating of the body.

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• ‟ Some people get turned on by my work, and it sells, but what drives me is the process of making it.

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