Children are so talented. Little children, until about the age of 10 or 11, are just little artists. They need to be given the time and the space and the materials to do their work. That’s all they need. Faith Ringgold Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it’s a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I’m gonna do it whether it’s hard or easy. Faith Ringgold Read Quote
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 all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it’s great, I love it. Faith Ringgold Read Quote
I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it ‘The Men’ and call it ‘The Women’ and show different faces of these two people. Faith Ringgold Read Quote
It is so sad that it takes so long for people to understand what needs to happen in order to be free. Faith Ringgold Read Quote
