Love Quote by Faith Ringgold

Ringgold is doing something quietly radical here: she frames artistic labor as pleasure without apologizing for it. The line is almost breathless, piled with repetitions ("able to", "every day", "I love it") and softeners ("I just feel like", "you know"), as if she’s trying to keep awe from tipping into bragging. That conversational looseness matters. It’s the sound of gratitude that’s been earned, not performed - a person still surprised that the thing she was told was impractical, indulgent, or impossible became her daily life.

The subtext sits in the word "luckiest". For a Black woman artist who came up amid segregated institutions and a mainstream art world that long treated women of color as footnotes, "luck" is both sincere and strategic. It acknowledges contingency - the doors that happened to open, the mentors and markets that finally noticed - while sidestepping the exhausting requirement to narrate struggle on demand. She doesn’t deny hardship; she refuses to let hardship be the headline.

There’s also a subtle defense of ambition. "All day every day if I like" asserts control over time, a privilege artists often lack when they’re forced into teaching, caretaking, or side jobs to subsidize the work. Ringgold’s joy reads as a cultural rebuke to the myth that art must be misery to be serious. The intent is not inspirational fluff; it’s a claim to artistic life as a legitimate, sustaining way to exist.