"Life for me was quite wonderful!" Ringgold tells Margaret Mazurkiewicz in an interview for
Something about the Author. "While I had asthma and was home sick a lot, I got a chance to do a lot of things with my mother. When I was recuperating my mother would take me to see live performances of people like Duke Ellington and Jimmy Lunceford and Count Basie. Actually those people were my first stars--my first artists. Part of my being with my mother a lot was that I was the youngest in the family. So when the other kids were in school she would take me to the museums. Also because I would be home with asthma, she would teach me and give me crayons and paper so I could draw. My mother would also give me pieces of fabric since she was a dressmaker. Later on, my mother became a fashion designer but at the time she was just making clothes for my family. She learned the skill from her mother and her mother learned from her mother and so on, and I learned from my mother.... My childhood was the best aside from the fact that I was sick."
"I had a wonderful childhood," Ringgold explains to Flomenhaft.
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