Rhiannon Giddens Quotes

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.

When you look on the bright side, you're acknowledging that there is a dark side at which you are choosing not to gaze. If you think that the darkest hour is before the dawn, you accept that you are moving from darkness to light.

With every positive, there is a negative across the board in life. It's about choosing to see the positive and working with the negative.

I been around negativity all my life. To do something positive, it's a beautiful thing.

The differences between people need not act as barriers that wound, harm and drive us apart. Rather, these very differences among cultures and civilizations should be valued as manifestations of the richness of our shared creativity.

My stepdad always said, "If you're going to believe the good, you're going to believe the bad." I think that's really important.

Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

For sure, you don't believe the good stuff. I mean, the good stuff is just insane - wacky. If you don't take it too much to heart, it does help when the negative stuff hits. And you know the negative stuff is coming. It's got to! What comes up must come down.

If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

I always imagine the world and myself above it and how minute one negative person's voice is in comparison to the amount of people that are in the world.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.