Love Quote by Faith Ringgold

Ringgold is talking about communication like an electrical current: sometimes it flows cleanly, sometimes it sputters, but the obligation is to keep sending. That metaphor matters because her career has been a long argument with blocked circuits - museums that didn’t hang Black women’s work, art histories that treated “craft” as lesser, institutions that mistook clarity for simplicity. When she says the message can be “difficult,” she’s not romanticizing the tortured artist; she’s naming the real-world drag of power: censorship, gatekeeping, polite dismissal, the demand to translate your experience into someone else’s comfort.

The most revealing move is the pivot from struggle to pleasure: “but I love the power of saying it.” In Ringgold’s hands, speech isn’t just expression, it’s leverage. Think of her story quilts, which fuse image, text, and fabric into a form that refuses the hierarchy separating fine art from domestic labor. The “power” is partly formal - she builds work that can’t be easily misfiled - and partly political, a claim to narrative authority in a culture that has often treated Black women as subjects to be depicted rather than authors who depict.

The last clause is the punch: “I’m gonna do it whether it’s hard or easy.” That’s not inspirational wallpaper; it’s discipline. Ringgold frames persistence as a strategy, not a personality trait: the message isn’t validated by how smoothly it lands. It’s validated by the fact that she insists on landing it at all.