Quotes from Rhiannon Giddens

I used to subscribe to Nintendo Power. The first issue had 'Mario 2,' and it had all the characters rendered in clay. So I started making all of these characters out of clay.

African-American history is American history.

People think art comes out of strife. No, art comes out of love, and it comes out of freedom, and it comes out of feeling safe, and it comes out of feeling embraced by the vibe and by the energy. That's when you can make your best stuff.

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

Nobody can know what their legacy is going to be, you know?

What's really interesting to me is to have a connection to what was going on in the past, but to make it a living thing.