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" I'm into crystals and good energy and harnessing more. It's just like prayer. It helps you be grateful, think about good things, and keep that positive energy around you. "
Kali Uchis
Positive
Grateful
Good
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" I used to love to look at cover art for vinyls. "
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" We're all born into whatever citizenship, circumstances, or class we happen to be born into. Immigrants and so many people in the working class work so hard every day for nickels and pennies and scraps to just barely get by and then realize that this precious life has been completely drained out of us. "
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" I am very much an artist. I like painting and collaging. "
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Artist
I Am
" No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself. "
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Yourself
Decide
" Music is your way to change the frequencies of everything around you and move your own body, move your whole environment. "
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Body
Change
Music
" I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it. "
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Myself
Writing
School
" As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects. "
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Just
Absorb
You
" I like lowriders and music from the '50s and '60s. A lot of people assumed I was Mexican. "
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" California feels like Colombia but with less threats. I don't have to be constantly looking over my shoulder. "
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Threats
Over
California
" I just know what I want for myself. "
Kali Uchis
Just
Want
Myself
" As an artist, you have to work hard for things that you can't really hold in your hand. I work not for money but for my career, to expand myself as an artist. Every video I make, it's not making me any money; it's just because I want to expand. "
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Work
Myself
Me
" I just believe in standing up for people and against discrimination. I consider myself an advocate for human rights. "
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Myself
People
Believe
" You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful... that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist for the rest of your life. "
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Life
Artist
You
" On my off day, I really want to just lay in bed. "
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Really
Want
Off
" The people, the culture... there's so much magic in Colombia, so I feel like being a kid, being able to have that, being able to also call Colombia my home, it was such an important part of my introduction as an artist, too, because it's such a big part of my life as a human being. "
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My Life
Home
Culture
" I've always been someone who, without wanting to or without trying to, I draw attention to myself sometimes in negative ways. It made me sharp, and it made me quick. "
Kali Uchis
Trying
Myself
Me
" I didn't want to go to school, because I wanted to be an artist, and they were never going to teach me art. None of my family had ever done that kind of stuff either. "
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Done
Family
Me
" Colombian culture has had a huge influence on me and taught me a different way of looking at things - I was always different from the people I went to school with, and I learned to embrace that. "
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Culture
School
Looking
" Diplo kept asking me who styled my 'What They Say' video. I was like, 'No, that's just my clothes!' "
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Me
Just
Clothes
" My sun and my moon signs are mostly Cancer - it's really strong. We're deeply intuitive and sentimental. I really like to take care of people, nurturing them. I'm very passionate about the things I do and like to see people I love grow. "
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Strong
Care
Love
" Juanes is one of the legendary, iconic Colombian artists. Growing up in Colombia, you can't really not have him on your radar. His songs are everywhere, and there's a statue of him. He's pretty big for Latin America, and for Colombia especially. "
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You
Him
Growing Up
" I'm not a Barbie doll, I'm just a multidimensional human being who likes to make things. "
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Human Being
Doll
Things
" N.E.R.D. was also from - not too far from where I was from growing up. For a lot of people who make music, that was a huge influence in teen years. "
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Growing Up
Teen
Music
" It's difficult as an artist sometimes. There's a lot of pressure when it's your first album. You want to make something that's meaningful and timeless, not something that's trendy. "
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Want
You
Artist
" I'm Colombian. My family all have different complexions; some are people of color. I've been called every name by white people, been mocked for speaking in Spanish by white people. "
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Family
White
People
" My dad's job was to manage apartment complexes, so when people would move out or when people would die or whatever, people left things in their apartments, he would always bring me home people's collection of music that they left behind. I was excited because I didn't really have money to go to the CD store all the time. "
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Music
Time
Home
" A lot of people don't give Virginia credit. Pharrell, Missy Elliott - a lot of people come from here. "
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Virginia
Here
Come
" I don't like to see people using their power over others, trying to hurt people who are weak or poor or people with darker skin or anyone who doesn't have as much privilege. It makes me so angry. I want to fight for people. I want to be able to make some kind of difference in the world. "
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Hurt
Fight
World
" I was always into music and stuff, so I would always make songs since I was little. "
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Music
Stuff
Little
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Definitely
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