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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

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Different people were complaining, and I remember saying, 'Why don't we just demonstrate?' The Whitney was the first.

- Faith Ringgold

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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

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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 about my work.

- Faith Ringgold

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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 the different faces of these two people.

- Faith Ringgold

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I have always wanted to tell my story - or, more to the point, my side of the story.

- Faith Ringgold

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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

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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