It is so sad that it takes so long for people to understand what needs to happen in order to be free. — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Here I come with these images of black and white people, and a lot of people got angry at me. — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
Different people were complaining, and I remember saying, 'Why don't we just demonstrate?' The Whitney was the first. — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
There were a lot of stop signs in my life... People telling you what to do, when to do it, and so… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
I was functioning in a time when people were struggling, and they knew they had to struggle, and I was a part… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to be somebody. I think that's where it begins. People decide, "I want to be somebody. I… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
What has not changed is people are still doing whatever they think they can get away with. I think there's still a… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
I'm not presumptuous enough to feel that people are going to feel what I have in mind, so I tell a story,… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
I think I had struck on a combination of imagery and politics that worked. — Faith Ringgold Copy Share
You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it — Faith Ringgold Copy Share
Every time people struggle, they survive, they do better, and then they forget, and they end up back where they started from. — Faith Ringgold Copy Share
It is so sad that it takes so long for people to understand what needs to happen in order to be free. — Faith Ringgold Copy Share
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… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share
When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt. — Faith Ringgold Copy Share
Anyone can fly. All you need is somewhere to go that you can't get to any other way. The next thing you know, you're… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share
I have always wanted to tell my story - or, more to the point, my side of the story. — Faith Ringgold Copy Share
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… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share
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… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share
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 Copy Share
There were people who would complain about their jobs, and my mother would walk away from that job. I liked that a lot about… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share
I was functioning in a time when people were struggling, and they knew they had to struggle, and I was a part of that… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share
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… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share
