I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.

Ringgold is represented by ACA Gallery. She has influenced numerous modern artists including Linda Freeman and known some of the greatest African American artists personally including Romare Bearden Jacob Lawrence and Betye Saar. Black Entertainment Television (BET) had aired several episodes of the television series Roc in which a Ringgold poster was shown on nine different occasions for a total of 26.

She is professor emeritus in the University of California San Diego visual art department.