Words matter. These are the best Faith Ringgold Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There were a lot of stop signs in my life… People telling you what to do, when to do it, and so on.
I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
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.
I think all children love art, but not all get the opportunity to do it.
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.
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.
I have always wanted to tell my story – or, more to the point, my side of the story.
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.
