Top 34 Quotes by Mickalene Thomas

I remember when I first saw Whoopi Goldberg doing standup, and she was wearing a sheet on her head, basically pretending to be this little white girl with long luxurious blonde hair. Everyone can relate to that. It's an oral history of black women's lives through laughter.

I define my work as a feminist act and a political act because I'm black and a woman. You don't necessarily have to claim that, but the act of making art itself is a political and feminist act when you're a woman.

With photography, you've captured a moment time - it's that moment only - and in painting, you play with it; you manipulate how time is presented. It's about fantasy and illusion and the creation of desire.

I had someone describe my work as so - '227' - and I thought about that TV show, and I thought about those women on that TV show, and I said, 'Yes, it is '227.'' That show depicted real women, everyday women. If that's the case, my work is very '227.'