Faith Ringgold Quotes

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Faith Ringgold

Profession : Artist

Birth : October 8, 1930

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

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

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

I think I had struck on a combination of imagery and politics that worked.

Faith Ringgold