"It is not by accident that I have chosen to be a religious painter…I paint the things I see and believe."

"I am simply M. Tanner, an American artist. Nobody knows or cares what was the complexion of my forebears. I live and …"

"All the thought which in the course of my studies I have been able to give to the subject has led me to conclude that…"

"the farmer takes Jill down the well & all the king's horses & all the king's men can't put that baby together again c…"

"death is where jimi hendrix is, where our revolution ended up."

"There has always been something wrong wif the tesses. The tesses paint a picture of me wif no brain. The tesses paint…"

""I'm tired," I says. She says, "I know you are, but you can't stop now Precious, you gotta push." And I do."

"this country might have been a pio neer land once. but. there ain't no mo indians blowing custer's mind with a differ…"

"I refuse to share my body with a man who wouldn't politically defend it."

"Got me mad as shit (yeah), so I slapped the bitch."