Faith Ringgold Quotes
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.
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People work hard for their money, and they expect services for the dollars they put into the city.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
