“Branding says a lot about luxury and about exclusion and about the cho...” — Kehinde Wiley Quote

“Branding says a lot about luxury and about exclusion and about the choices that manufacturers make, but I think that what society does with it after it's produced is something else. And the African-American community has always been expert at taking things and repurposing them toward their own ends.”

“My love affair with painting is bittersweet.”

“Europe has been a place of refuge. Why should it stop with black and brown bodies?”

“I wanted to represent African-American athletes in a better way than what I saw when I grew up.”

“My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African-American, so I had a pretty diverse culinary background to work with.”

“I consciously think about the ethnicity of every character that I create and cast. But one thing that is equally important is quality representation. It's not enough to put an African-American in there, a female in there, a gay character in there: How significant is their contribution? Can they drive the story?”