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Faith Ringgold

"I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people."

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"I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people."

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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

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"Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?"

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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."

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"The next generation of women will enter a world in which they are perceived to have more opportunities for creating fulfilling lives than women have ever had before."

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"All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough."

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"I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am."

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"It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners."

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"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."

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"If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe."

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"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"

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"I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me."
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"I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy."
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"I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it."
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"Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face."
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"I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one."
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"I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people."
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