“I can recall that nobody ever went out the door that wasn't dressed ni...” — Faith Ringgold Quote

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 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.

Different people were complaining, and I remember saying, 'Why don't we just demonstrate?' The Whitney was the first.

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.

What made me empathic was my depressions.

When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

My mother made all of our clothes, my friends' mothers made all of their clothes. This was the Depression.

In the late 90s I was hired to participate in a 2 year initiative discussing intimacy and depression which was funded by an educational grant by Glaxo Wellcome.

Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.