"Diasporism is my code. It is the way I do my pictures. If they mirror my life, these pictures betray confounded patterns […] Diasporist art is contradictory at its heart, being both internationalist and particularist. It can be inconsistent, which is a major blasphemy against the logic of much art education, because life in Diaspora is often inconsistent and tense, schismatic contradiction animates each day […] In the end, the Diasporist knows he is one, even though he may one day settle down and sort of cease to be one […] the Diasporic condition presents itself as yet another theatre in which human, artistic instinct comes into play, maybe not primordial (?) but a condition, a theatre to be treasured." (Kitaj 36-38)

R.B. Kitaj "First Diasporist Manifesto" in Nicholas Mirzoeff (ed.) Diaspora and Visual Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 2000.