"I like to paint on paper because it’s cheap and disposable, like life."

"I'm not interested in being a role model. I'm interested in being myself."

"I'm not a black painter. I'm a painter who is black."

"I get my background from my mother, who is Puerto Rican, and my father, who is Haitian. So I have this kind of third world background."

"I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life."