"It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things."
"All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity."
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"I think I'm a full-time artist, a full-time urban planner, and a full-time preacher with an aspiration of no longer needing any of those titles. Rather, I'm trying to do what for some seems a very messy work or a complicated work."
"I'm not a preacher, but I preach. I'm not a Buddhist, but I chant. I'm not race theorist, but I have questions and ponderances around the complexities of race and class and culture wherever I am."
"Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in."
"I believe that beauty is a basic service."
"I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me."