“Here I come with these images of black and white people, and a lot of ...” — Faith Ringgold Quote

Here I come with these images of black and white people, and a lot of people got angry at me.

I can recall that nobody ever went out the door that wasn't dressed nicely, even though it was the Depression. I particularly remember on Sunday, the day we all went to church, if you didn't have it together, you kind of stayed in the house.

I don't think you can create art out of anger; it has to come out of some form of understanding. You have to feel good about who you are and that you could do something to change things.

It is so sad that it takes so long for people to understand what needs to happen in order to be free.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

I never dwell on what happened. You can't change it. Move forward. Don't waste your energy on being angry at something that somebody did six months ago or a year ago. It's over. Done. Move forward.

I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam or Christianity, but if you have a system in which God is distant and angry all the time, and you're trying to please him through the right disciplines, it isn't going to work for everyone.

I'm not an angry man.