Faith Ringgold Quotes
When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
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There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.
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'Coexist' was tough to make.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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I never had a plan; I always follow my intuition.
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Whatever I do with music, I try to make it align deeply with the values and principles of who I am and what I believe the purpose of my life is.
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As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just work.
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When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views.
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When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt.
