Rhiannon Giddens : (7)

" Know thy history. Let it horrify you; let it inspire you. " - Rhiannon Giddens

" White people are so fragile, God bless ’em. ‘Well, I didn’t own slaves.’ No you didn’t. Nobody is asking you to take personal responsibility for this. But you’re a beneficiary of a system that did. Just own that and move on. " - Rhiannon Giddens

" The first band I was in out of college was a Celtic band, and I had to learn to sing with a microphone, because I’d never done that before. At Oberlin, I never used a mic for any kind of singing. " - Rhiannon Giddens

" I think that we definitely want to experiment, and if there’s a hip-hop song that we like, we’ll cover it. We don’t want to be one of those bands that’s like, you know, you know – Carolina Chocolate Drops does hip-hop. I mean, just know – you know, if it naturally works itself in, you know, cool. " - Rhiannon Giddens

" It’s not about me, it’s about the music. I don’t do this because I want to be a star. I don’t do this because I want to make a lot of money. " - Rhiannon Giddens

" For me the bare feet are grounding. I’m connected to the Earth in a way that I cannot be any other way. " - Rhiannon Giddens

" My dad’s white, my mom’s black, and I’ve struggled with being mixed race. " - Rhiannon Giddens