Faith Ringgold

Faith Ringgold (born October 8, 1930 in Harlem, New York City) is an African American artist, best known for her painted story quilts. She is professor emeritus in the University of California, San Diego visual art department.

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    That we have but little faith is not sad, but that we have little faithfulness. By faithfulness faith is earned.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    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.
    —Faith Ringgold (b. 1934)