I always knew I wanted to be somebody. I think that's where it begins. People decide, "I want to be somebody. I want to make a contribution. I want t…

- Faith Ringgold

Anyone can fly. All you need is somewhere to go that you can't get to any other way. The next thing you know, you're flying among the stars.

- Faith Ringgold

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 vis…

- Faith Ringgold

No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I decided to be an artist, the first thing that…

- Faith Ringgold

I will always remember when the stars fell down around me and lifted me up above the George Washington Bridge.

- Faith Ringgold

I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.

- Faith Ringgold

The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up - like a nine-year-old who won't draw pictures, for fear everybody will laugh…

- Faith Ringgold

Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever fully comprehending…

- Faith Ringgold

I'm not presumptuous enough to feel that people are going to feel what I have in mind, so I tell a story, you know, let them read something, that doe…

- Faith Ringgold