“If you ever find yourself on a boat in the middle of the ocean, you lo...” — Kerry James Marshall Quote

“If you ever find yourself on a boat in the middle of the ocean, you look around in every direction and don't see anything. That's a terrifying experience.”

“What I hope 'Mastry' ends up doing is completely undermining or doing away with the notion that artists are a savant: that they do things that can't be articulated, driven by inner turmoil they don't have access to.”

“The lighter the skin, the more acceptable you are. The darker the skin, the more marginalised you become. I want to demonstrate that you can produce beauty in the context of a figure that has that kind of velvety blackness. It can be done.”

“Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.”

“I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice, and not just singing on 10 all of the time out of terror.”

“If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference.”