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.… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
I think I had struck on a combination of imagery and politics that worked. — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I have always wanted to tell my story - or, more to the point, my side of the story. — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
