86 Quotes by Dawn Richard

I don't wish homelessness on anyone, especially when you come from where your parents work hard.

I don't take myself too seriously.

I believe I am standing firm as a black woman in this industry in a time that it is hard as an artist period.

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.

There's a fine line between artist and product. I don't think the industry purposely does it, but I think that's just the way they maneuver. You have to be careful that doesn't become your story, where you become a product, and your art is tarnished because you're just seen as a tool to make money.

I'm not a very open person.

The black geeks of the world, we feel like we don't have a home.

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.

I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came from that.