American - Musician | August 5, 1983 -
'The Red Era' is for everybody. Every gay, every fluid, every black, every white.
Dawn Richard
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I lived in the library with my grandmother as a child. I still love the smell of books; the library card is still my friend.
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There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies. But I never saw it that way. I always thought music was open to all things.
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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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A lot of 'Blackheart' was me, literally in a dark room, confessing my sins; Poe was the influence for that album. But that melancholy has a hopefulness - in every Poe story, there is always a moral at the end.
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My director, Monty Marsh, is really awesome - I've been working with him for years now.
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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.
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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 don't wish homelessness on anyone, especially when you come from where your parents work hard.
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You don't know how far you can go until you push it.
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When I was 4, I had a schedule. I was playing softball. My brother was playing football. My parents were teachers, and they'd owned businesses. We like to work hard. Work and then books. Books and then work. We just knew that we had to excel. It sounds militant, but trust me, it was fun.
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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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