I will always remember Faith Ringgold More Quotes by Faith Ringgold More Quotes From 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 my-life you life people I think all children love art, but not all get the opportunity to do it. Faith Ringgold opportunity love children art It is so sad that it takes so long for people to understand what needs to happen in order to be free. Faith Ringgold understand sad long people 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 good anger change art I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one. Faith Ringgold looking think me people 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 looking hope mind work 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 day you together depression 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 story tell women reason 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 think freedom people world 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 woman walk mother people 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 women struggle time people 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 new think women black 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 music dance history art Different people were complaining, and I remember saying, 'Why don't we just demonstrate?' The Whitney was the first. Faith Ringgold saying complaining remember people I think I had struck on a combination of imagery and politics that worked. Faith Ringgold i-think think combination politics
