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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Here I come with these images of black and white people, and a lot of people got angry at me. Faith Ringgold Read Quote
Every time people struggle, they survive, they do better, and then they forget, and they end up back where they started from. Faith Ringgold Read Quote
Different people were complaining, and I remember saying, ‘Why don’t we just demonstrate?’ The Whitney was the first. Faith Ringgold Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
