Faith Ringgold Quotes

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 Ringgold

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• Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Religion
  • Fight

• I used to be vegan. I'm not anymore, but I don't eat hardly any meat. But it's nice for me to go to a place like Chipotle where I can get some fresh veggies, some brown rice, some black beans, and all that kind of stuff.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Black
  • Me
  • Nice

• The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

  

  Sallust
  • Wealth
  • Glory
  • Eternal

• I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Lost
  • Winning
  • Tennis

• When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Work
  • Easy
  • Relationships

• I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.

  

  Randall Park
  • Good
  • Work
  • Good Work

• When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • World
  • Real
  • Change

• I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Men
  • Job
  • Play

• It was in the sugar hacienda in Negros, Panay and in Central Luzon where I saw the injustices heaped upon the sugar workers, particularly the sacadas, or seasonal workers.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Where
  • Workers
  • Sugar

• I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• I believe we're stronger when we speak loudly and unapologetically for human rights; when we stand with our allies against common threats like terrorism, radicalization, and poverty; and when we unite to prevent the world's most dangerous regimes from acquiring the world's deadliest weapons.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • World
  • Believe
  • Poverty

• The difference between the arts arises because of the difference in the nature of the mediums of expression and the emphasis induced by the nature of each medium. Each means of expression has its own order of being, its own units.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Nature

• Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man...

  

  Edmund White

• I think that I appeal to the girliness in all of us.

  

  Anna Sui

• It is a happy day when I am asked to publicly recommend a book. It is also a dilemma. When I consider all the books I have loved and depended upon and profited from, how can I pick just one?

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Book
  • Happy

• When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.

  

  Leslie Cockburn
  • School

• If the baby is sick, you won't find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.

  

  Phoebe Snow
  • Up
  • Baby
  • Sick

• The ridiculousness and idiocy of life is embraced and examined. It nurtures the childhood perspective in everyone.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Childhood
  • Perspective
  • Nurture

• I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I'm still a supporter.

  

  Brian J. White

• When I arrived in L.A., I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult, so I had six months working with a dialect coach, and it's become a habit.

  

  Martin Henderson
  • American
  • Habit

• We were film geeks. We devoured everything: really obscure art films, foreign films. We were the kind of guys that lived at the Cinematheque. But at the end of the day, your favorite movies are like everybody else's favorite movies. Because those are the movies that become a touch point where you can connect to other people.

  

  Anthony Russo
  • People
  • Art

• Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Truth
  • Stupid
  • Characteristic

• 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 Ringgold