Hard Memories Quotes by Faith Ringgold

I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.

— Faith Ringgold

I think I had struck on a combination of imagery and politics that worked.

— Faith Ringgold

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

Every time people struggle, they survive, they do better, and then they forget, and they end up back where they started from.

— Faith Ringgold

It is so sad that it takes so long for people to understand what needs to happen in order to be free.

— Faith Ringgold

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

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

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

I have always wanted to tell my story - or, more to the point, my side of the story.

— Faith Ringgold

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

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

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

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

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

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