“In a sense, we are all victims of the misogyny and racism that exist i...” — Kehinde Wiley Quote

“In a sense, we are all victims of the misogyny and racism that exist in the world, no matter what our gender or race happens to be.”

“There is - and always will be - the legacy of chattel slavery in this nation, an obsession with racial and gender differences, but I think that, at its best, this nation is capable of creating standards for itself and reaching towards those standards.”

“My father is Nigerian; my mother is from Texas and African-American. My father was the first in his family to go to university. He flew from Nigeria to Los Angeles in the '70s to go to UCLA, where he met my mother. They broke up before I was born, and he returned to Nigeria.”

“It's about hard work and not gender.”

“Business doesn't cut you any slack because of your gender. You're either good at what you do or you're not.”

“Just being gender non-conforming opens you to trouble from strangers. And violence.”