If we are doing a remake it should be done right by Clint Eastwood. And I was like it's no way in the world this is gonna happen and they told me a couple of months after I said that "guess what we have a meeting with Clint Eastwood" so my mother and I got got on a plane the next morning . We were so nervous. He was so elegant, so charming and witty... and I was so starstruck.

Loving Michelle Obama wasn’t much of a choice. It was something that came naturally, because of how she carried herself. Because she resembled us and was moving in spaces where, as black Americans, we weren’t exactly meant to be, she seemed so powerful. When I first met her, I was embraced by a warm, regal, confident woman who possessed a reassuring calm, on the eve of President Obama’s historic first Inauguration

Thank you for all you have sacrificed to improve the lives of other human beings.

Until there is a mosaic of perspectives coming from different ethnicities behind the lens, we will continue to have a narrow approach and view of what the world actually looks like. That is why I wanted to work with this brilliant 23-year-old photographer Tyler Mitchell.

It makes me think of a Basquiat quote I read somewhere that said, ‘I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.”