I have always wanted to tell my story – or, more to the point, my side of the story. Faith Ringgold Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I’m thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it’s our front, it’s our face. Faith Ringgold Read Quote
