Faith Ringgold Quotes

I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.

Faith Ringgold

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 8, 1930

Topics

WorkHopeMindWritingLookingFeel

It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.

Jhumpa Lahiri

GoodI AmMeStoryEasyYou

The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.

Andrew O'Hagan

GoodDreamsServiceHappyPeople

I'm horrible to live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet.

Megan Fox

LiveEndClothesForgetCleanUp

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

Robert Rodriguez

PeopleThinkDoingYouLookDead

But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.

Rob Sheffield

MusicYearAttentionLoudestStar

I ask people who they vote for sometimes. I think it is just trying to get to know somebody.

Ronna McDaniel

PeopleThinkTryingKnowSometimes

I became a very passionate Christian when I was 17. I started writing and performing poetry at different venues across the U.K. I started performing from then, really.

Michaela Coel

PoetryWritingChristianPassionate

Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!

Donna Karan

PositiveNegativeDeleteAccentuate

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.

Chuck Palahniuk

MenMeStoryLookYoungNowhere

There's nothing that can replace learning on the field.

Brock Osweiler

LearningNothingReplaceField

To go in the water and stare at a shrimp for three minutes and not think about anything else in the world, it's just euphoric.

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

WaterWorldThinkGoThreeAnything

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Woodrow Wilson

LifeLoveBusinessDailyGodPrayer

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