100 Quotes by Rhiannon Giddens

It's really funny how I've come round to classical music around the back door with my banjo in my hand, and I love it.

For me the bare feet are grounding. I'm connected to the Earth in a way that I cannot be any other way.

To sit in my concert and be uncomfortable is brave. Because you could always leave, you know?

Know thy history. Let it horrify you; let it inspire you.

There are people who have incredible stories that we don't talk about. People who did amazing things, men and women who faced incredible odds, and there's nothing wrong with them being heroes for once, you know?

We have been fed so many false narratives, many of them racialized to deliberately feed a racist agenda. It's important to address and dig into that wherever you can.

African-American history is American history.

My dad's white, my mom's black, and I've struggled with being mixed race.

To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual history of America.