Faith Ringgold

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

“It is so sad that it takes so long for people to understand what needs to happen in order to be free.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.”

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