“That's partly the success of my work-the ability to straddle both of those worlds, the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings she recognizes not because of their art or historical influence but because of their inflection, in terms of colors, their specificity and presence” (Wiley quoted in conversation with M.I.A. in Interview Magazine, reproduced at http://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/kehinde-wiley/).