Faith Ringgold Quotes
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 I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity.
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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Dumped? Fired? Scorned? Humiliated? Totally pissed off? If so, I've got great news! You might be on your way to living your best life ever - if you consciously choose to channel this pain into fuel - and use it to motivate yourself to become your highest potential self!
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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.
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It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.
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Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.
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It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.
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The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.
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The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.
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Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.
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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 I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity.
