Michelle Obama is extraordinary, but she is also the kind of woman that exists in a way that is - she's a hundred percent relatable to all kinds of people, all genders all around the world.

The people I choose as models have a quality that seems to contain the past, the present, and the future all at once. It's hard to explain. I can look at 100 people in a room but only find it in one person.

My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until I won the National Gallery Portrait Competition.

I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe.

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.

I believe women should be independent and have their own life. But I also think that when a couple decides to have a family, things change because you need to live in unison.

As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families.