“Fashion is fragile and fleeting. But it is also an indicator for the c...” — Kehinde Wiley Quote

“Fashion is fragile and fleeting. But it is also an indicator for the cultural and social appetites for a nation.”

“In the end, what I'm trying to say as a person who does all this travel and fashions these images is that you arrive at an approximate location but never one destination.”

“What is portraiture? It's choice. It's the ability to position your body in the world for the world to celebrate you on your own terms.”

“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.”

“Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.”

“'The Joshua Tree' was the soundtrack of my life when we were making 'Appetite.'”