Faith Ringgold

“The women artists’ movement in New York was on its way. There was now a plethora of panels and statements being made concerning women’s art and culture. Artists and other folk, both male and female, were beginning to demand explanations of the women’s art movement. “Is there a women’s art, and if so, what is it?” was the constant question posed to us. The concept of making female images as opposed to male, and black images as opposed to white or abstract, was the crux of the issue. “Who needs all this talk about black art and women’s art?” some artists would say. “I’m just an artist who happens to be black or a woman.” It was a real challenge to try to define oneself and one’s art outside the narrow parameters of the mainstream art world. But we were doing this and it felt good. The”
― Faith Ringgold, We Flew over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold