You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it
Faith RinggoldThe 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. Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground, they trip, they fall, they get up and run some more. They believe everything will be all right. They feel capable; they let go. Good businesspeople behave in a similar way: they lose $15 million, gain $20 million, lose $30 million and earn it back. If that isn't playing, I don't know what is!
Faith RinggoldI just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.
Faith RinggoldI 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 RinggoldAnyone 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 RinggoldI'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 doesn't change, that as I have said it, you know, so that's the way I feel about the viewer, the viewer has a mind of their own and eyes of their own and they're going to see it their way, I just hope they look.
Faith Ringgold