Dawn Angeliqué Richard Quotes
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I love what a women embodies. I love our bodies; I love the way we communicate with our bodies. I love the way dance creates movement. It's art in motion.
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My uncle is in the hall of fame for creating by hand some of the most intricate Indian Mardi Gras garb.
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When my dad went to college to get his master's from Loyola, he was playing Debussy and Chopin and Beethoven. But he played all that New Orleans stuff, too. I would go with my dad to gigs, pick up the piano and the speakers, and I would be like his roadie.
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The black geeks of the world, we feel like we don't have a home.
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It's always interesting when you're doing things yourself - getting the lighting, getting everybody together. It's exciting.
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I watched my parents lose everything, from a house to birth certificates. We were homeless for about six months, then we stayed in Baltimore, and my parents got jobs.
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I had always had an affinity for series in literature, and I thought it would be really cool to incorporate what I loved about books into the story of music, to pile it together.
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Just as much as you need the people who love you, you need the people who doubt you - to prove them wrong.
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I couldn't do a record without knowing I'll translate it into something visual.
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People want to peg you as alternative R&B when they hear soul or see the color of your skin. It's comfortable when people see artists of color or artists that come from a different country to put that brand on us. It's just not as linear as that.
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My music speaks of warriors. It speaks of women being kings and this sense of pride of being more, even though you have less.
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Growing up, my parents were Roman Catholic - strict Catholics - from New Orleans. I understood the idea in the principle of spirituality. I noticed it in the stories that I read. The Trinity was something that was brought up consistently: the power of three. Things happened in threes, and I thought that was brilliant.
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'Goldenheart' is like a modern-day Joan of Arc. Think of it like medieval times-cum-2045 or Lancelot and Guinevere in 3025. It's a new version of these battles - age-old stories for the now.
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I do not have a history in set design. I have a history in art. I draw. But I learned set design when I couldn't afford to have a team and I didn't want to look like I was indie. I wanted to give fans the visual.
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Anything that creates fear, I want to conquer it.
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I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times, I even believed them.
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Animals don’t have the ability to say how much pain they’re in or tell you not to rip their skin off for your ability to wear something. … Really get into the process of seeing what you’re putting not only inside your body, but outside, too.
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My director, Monty Marsh, is really awesome - I've been working with him for years now.
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I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you're an artist.
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I believe I am standing firm as a black woman in this industry in a time that it is hard as an artist period.
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Instagram is just something I like to do. I feel it's the best way to portray who you are.
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My father's music is all I remember from my childhood.
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My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and the smell of them and how they'd have these series, and it was cool to me. I always felt like, if I had an opportunity, I'd create an album that felt like a series.
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You don't need validation from other people. You've gotta find it within yourself and sit in it and roll with it.