"My artwork is about resistance, de-colonization, self-definition, self-empowerment and survival. I draw upon myths, family folklore, and indigenismo . I reinterpret and register all these as cultural, visual, iconographic manifestations of my identity. As the subject matter of my art, I exalt a lineage of women, energized from a sacred space of creation."

"I am primarily painting from photographs these days , in a sense this is a stylistic problem, the form is naturalistic, even though the photograph is not nature at all but a prefabricated product , I …"

"When I write it’s more a process of listening. I don’t pretend that there is some spirit standing beside me that tells me things. More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess…"

"It's evident God had no design to make a particular Enumeration in the Holy Scriptures, of all the Works of his Creation."

"The Force Behind Social Security: Frances Perkins, Wharton Magazine"