“Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brow...” — William Congreve Quote

“Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.”

“I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.”

“'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.”

“Many people see my early work simply as portraits of black and brown people. Really, it's an investigation of how we see those people and how they have been perceived over time.”

“But I understand the importance of being a brown, Muslim woman of faith who is in the public eye, because there aren't that many of us.”

“I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.”