Quotes from Leigh-Anne Pinnock

I wanted everyone to feel included by In 'A' Seashell as far as possible.

My reality was feeling lonely while touring to predominately white countries where I sing to fans who don't see me, don't hear me, don't cheer me on.

We're very approachable. We are four normal, silly, weird girls. We want people to feel like they can come up to us and have a chat. We're like your friends.

It is so important for people to speak out if they see any injustices.

We've made music to boost people up, make people happy and to inspire them.

Even when we first got put together we always said we wanted to do music to inspire people, that was our main aim. We started out like that.

For too long people have been scared to offend people, or to say the wrong thing. You know what? You might say the wrong thing, like I might say the wrong thing, but we're all learning, and how are we ever going to see any type of change if we don't?

I never said that I was going to do a documentary talking about my experiences of colourism. I think people took it the wrong way with the working title - 'Leigh-Anne: Race and Colourism.' That's not what I was doing, I'm here to amplify the voices of darker-skinned women and hear their experiences.

I would never represent a brand that didn't represent different shapes and sizes.

My skin care is really important.

Joan of Arc' is about not feeling scared to call yourself beautiful. Why shouldn't you!?

Me and my sisters never saw race as a limitation on what we wanted to achieve... One thing we were doing were sleeping on racism.

When we did Party in the Park it was in front of 70,000 people and that was amazing. But with smaller crowds, you can see everyone looking at you. We're like 'eeeee!'

I never let anyone tell me anything growing up and I knew I wanted to be a singer. I would say to every single person that entered my life, 'I'm going to be a singer, I'm going to be on billboards and I'm going to smash it!' You have to put it into the universe, you've got to be positive and not let anything hold you back.

There is such a problem with racism, so to actually just say it and have so many people of colour message me and thank me for saying something... I remember when I used to cry about it to my manager I used to be like: 'Why do I feel like this?' and she'd never say it, and I'd never say it. It was really strange.

It's not easy being a female in the U.K. pop industry. We've seen the white male dominance, misogyny, sexism and lack of diversity.

Know your power, believe in yourself and don't let anyone dim your light.

More people are speaking out about... well, everything. And that kind of gave us the confidence to feel like we could speak out a bit more about things.

Who's not played spin the bottle? But I never done the kiss version. I always wanted to, but I never did. We did the truth or dare one instead.

Imagine if everyone spoke out about injustices. We would be in a better place, I think.

I wanted to use my voice to address colourism because I am so aware of how awful it is and it is just something that needs to be spoken about.

I learned that the dream of being in the biggest girl band in the world came with its flaws and consequences. Consequences such as knowing about the existent underlying racism in the creative industries.

Some nerves are good, as it shows you care.

We've been around New York City so many times now driving back and forth to places.