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There was a time when I was knocking on doors and concerned with being recognized in dominant culture. I've found a space where the terrain is different, where I'm embraced by people like me, and where I'm building new ways of doing things, as opposed to trying to insert myself in a place that might not be welcoming.

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.

There is an element in some of my work that has to do with being an outsider, feeling like not part of the dominant culture.

My cultural roots are something illusive.

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.

I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting.

I have always felt more at home in a culture that has nothing to do with the one I was born and brought up in.