Carrie Mae Weems

It's impossible to change the social without changing the personal - you have to put your money where your mouth is. And if you're not making those challenges at home, it's unlikely you'll make them in a larger setting.

I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.

Sometimes you sacrifice too much. You find yourself out on a limb and not knowing really quite how to get back down the tree. But it__ the space that you__e in because you have taken the risk. I__ not unaware of the sacrifices and, at times, whom your compassion hurts. It__ not all moving in one direction. It__ complicated, as the work is complicated.