100 Quotes by Rhiannon Giddens

So my mom's folks are from one side of Greensboro - and, you know, outside of Greensboro. And my dad's folks, the white side, is from another very small town outside of Greensboro. So both sides are coming from the country.

I decided to study music my last year in high school.

Othering people is something that humans have done for ever.

History is my biggest teacher.

Black women have historically had the most to lose and have therefore been the fiercest fighters for justice.

I'm discovering so much about how invisible, othered and dismissed the Islamic world is, in terms of the massive effects it had on European music and culture.

I had this dream like years ago. I had this dream - I wanted to be in an all-black string band.

I don't want to go on a talk show and talk about stuff I don't know about.

I'll talk about the banjo all day long and the history of minstrel shows.