Faith Ringgold Quotes
It is so sad that it takes so long for people to understand what needs to happen in order to be free.
Faith Ringgold
American painter
The reason why I began making quilts is because I wrote my autobiography in 1980 and couldn't get it published because I wanted to tell my story, and my story didn't appear to be appropriate for African-American women.
Faith Ringgold
American painter
I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.
Faith Ringgold
American painter
Here I come with these images of black and white people, and a lot of people got angry at me.
Faith Ringgold
American painter
Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.
Faith Ringgold
American painter
I think I had struck on a combination of imagery and politics that worked.
Faith Ringgold
American painter
What has not changed is people are still doing whatever they think they can get away with. I think there's still a lot of advancement for people, generally speaking, to learn to let other people live in the world with freedom.
Faith Ringgold
American painter
I was functioning in a time when people were struggling, and they knew they had to struggle, and I was a part of that struggle. It wasn't just women.
Faith Ringgold
American painter
There were people who would complain about their jobs, and my mother would walk away from that job. I liked that a lot about her. She was a very, very creative woman, and eventually, she stopped working outside the house, and she just had her own customers whom she made clothes for.
Faith Ringgold
American painter
Every time people struggle, they survive, they do better, and then they forget, and they end up back where they started from.
Faith Ringgold
American painter
Art is a form of experience of the person, the place, the history of the people, and as black people, we are different. We hail from Africa to America, so the culture is mixed, from the African to the American. We can't drop that. It's reflected in the music, the dance, the poetry, and the art.
Faith Ringgold
American painter
I don't think you can create art out of anger; it has to come out of some form of understanding. You have to feel good about who you are and that you could do something to change things.
Faith Ringgold
American painter
I think all children love art, but not all get the opportunity to do it.
Faith Ringgold
American painter
Black women have never embraced feminism. They didn't embrace it in the '50s and '60s; they're not embracing it now. That's not new. I think it's a tendency among women in general not to be supportive of each other.
Faith Ringgold
American painter
I can recall that nobody ever went out the door that wasn't dressed nicely, even though it was the Depression. I particularly remember on Sunday, the day we all went to church, if you didn't have it together, you kind of stayed in the house.
Faith Ringgold
American painter
I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.
Faith Ringgold
American painter
There were a lot of stop signs in my life... People telling you what to do, when to do it, and so on.
Faith Ringgold
American painter
I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
Faith Ringgold
American painter
I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.
Faith Ringgold
American painter
Paintings, people really don't understand... They don't really get paintings. Quilts they do understand because everybody has a quilt in their house.
Faith Ringgold
American painter
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