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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. "
Dawn Richard
Lose
House
Homeless
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" I did write more mainstream stuff with DK. But you could always tell the records that I wrote in contrast with everybody else's because the format was a bit different. The harmonies were used in a different type of way. Way more metaphors in the mix. "
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" I want to get up and celebrate something - and why not celebrate being a woman? "
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Celebrate
Up
" I don't take myself too seriously. "
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" The problem with Danity Kane is everybody wanted to play everybody's role, and when you're in a group like that, that can't survive. "
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" I couldn't do a record without knowing I'll translate it into something visual. "
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Something
" My father's music is all I remember from my childhood. "
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" Originally, I was set on going to Hawaii Pacific University. We visited the campus in Hawaii. I was gonna be a Rainbow Warrior. I was gonna play softball. I was gonna major in marine biology. Everything was set. Then my dad was like, 'So you're not gonna do music? If you do go to Hawaii, there's no studios there, baby girl.' "
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" I write for myself. It's therapy. "
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" I promised myself that I wouldn't be afraid to be who I was when I chose to do this music thing. "
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Promised
" Songwriting was my own journey. I never fit in with structure in songwriting. "
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Structure
" My uncle is in the hall of fame for creating by hand some of the most intricate Indian Mardi Gras garb. "
Dawn Richard
Fame
Uncle
Some
" I'm big on showing people versatility. I'm constantly trying to push myself to break barriers and the idea that we have to stay in one lane. "
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People
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Barriers
" I'm okay with being the oddball. "
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Okay
Oddball
" I wake up every day in a different headspace, so on any given day, my hairstyle will change. "
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Change
Wake Up
" I really got back to my New Orleans roots - my grandfather played with Fats Domino. We had to leave after Katrina, but I feel like, spiritually, I'm back there. "
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Roots
Back
Feel
" 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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Amazing
You
Work
" I don't really feel there's rules in my everyday wear. I kind of do whatever the hell I want to do. "
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Want
Kind
Rules
" 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. "
Dawn Richard
Library
Cool
Me
" Fashion is my lover on the side, but I am married to music. "
Dawn Richard
Fashion
Am
Side
" You don't know how far you can go until you push it. "
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Far
Know
Push
" When I was growing up, there was no one. There were very few black women in tech; there were very few black women in the fashion game. We didn't have our Grace Jones - Grace Jones was before my time. We didn't really have a lot of black women in electronic and punk who were celebrated in the same levels as, say, your big mega-superstars. "
Dawn Richard
Women
Black
Grace
" 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. "
Dawn Richard
Right
Me
Always
" The black geeks of the world, we feel like we don't have a home. "
Dawn Richard
Home
Feel
Black
" I always treat shows as though they could belong on either platform. I always design it for the bigger stage, but I love it on the smaller stage. "
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Love
Design
Always
" When I look half naked on stage, it's not because I'm trying to be sexy but because I am dancing and want to be mobile enough to move. "
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Trying
Sexy
Naked
" 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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Black
I Am
Hard
" My dad was a teacher. He has a Masters in music. He taught elementary school, and he played gigs his whole life, and we lived good. "
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Teacher
He
Music
" 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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Pride
Kings
You
" When you see what you really are, good or bad, there is a fearlessness to understanding your purpose. "
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You
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" It's a lot of work being an indie artist, but it's worth it. "
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