Leigh-Anne Pinnock Quotes

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Leigh-Anne Pinnock

Profession : Singer

Birth : October 4, 1991

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.

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What I address is that I know that if I was some shades darker that I wouldn't be in the band. I think that was so important for me to address because it is true.

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We know there aren't enough dark-skinned women that are being represented so that was something I really felt like I needed to talk about.

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When I am on my own, I get nervous and have butterflies.

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

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Anybody is a beach body is what I love to say.

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We all worry about being beach body ready. It's one of those really annoying things worrying about having the perfect bod. But really what is the perfect body?

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These sorts of conversations should be second nature, it shouldn't be hard to talk about race.

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I think when you look at Little Mix you think pop, colour, you think fun - you don't really think that there are actual things that we all go through, but we all do go through things and we do have a lot to say.

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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.

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I hope I can help one person and change things, my work will be done.

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I'm just a bit of a liability when it comes to driving.

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During the first couple of years of being in the band, I did feel invisible. I remember crying to my manager regularly, I just couldn't seem to find my place and didn't know why.

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I didn't feel like I had as many fans as the other girls. It was a strange feeling. I never thought that it was because I was the darkest member of the band. I felt overlooked. So I did everything to make myself more noticed, convinced I wasn't good enough.

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We're very lucky because our fan base is so dedicated that they want to have a hard copy of our album. They want to own it, have it in their hands.

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We've done some incredible things!

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We met Prince Harry!

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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.

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It's not enough to just say 'I'm not racist' because you're not a purveyor of overt racism. If you benefit from the system, knowing that people are being oppressed and affected by it, then you are racist.

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To be anti-racist you have to be actively a part of dismantling the systems that surround you and the systems that you benefit from.

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