Faith Ringgold

Different people were complaining, and I remember saying, 'Why don't we just demonstrate?' The Whitney was the first.

— Faith Ringgold

Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever…

— Faith Ringgold

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

I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American…

— Faith Ringgold

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

Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of…

— Faith Ringgold

I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people…

— Faith Ringgold

The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up - like a nine-year-old who won't draw pictures, for…

— Faith Ringgold

Art is a form of experience of the person, the place, the history of the people, and as black people, we are…

— Faith Ringgold

I will always remember when the stars fell down around me and lifted me up above the George Washington Bridge.

— Faith Ringgold

Children are so talented. Little children, until about the age of 10 or 11, are just little artists. They need to be…

— Faith Ringgold