“What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.” Quote by St. Lucia
“The music that I listen to the most is probably world music, whether it's from African or South America or all over.” WorldAmericaSouthSouth AmericaWorld Music Author:St. Lucia
“World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from.” ThinkingWorldFeelingsSceneEvokeWorld Music Author:St. Lucia
“When I was developing St. Lucia - around 2008, 2009, at the peak of Pitchfork culture - what was considered cool was being as alienating to your audience as possible.” CultureAudienceDevelopingPitchforks Author:St. Lucia
“Trying to be really dark and alienating just felt exhausting to me, so I started going back to the music that I grew up with, whether it was African music or pop music. It took me away from being overly self-conscious about what I was doing.” TryingSelfFeltDarkGrewGrew UpConsciousPopsSelf ConsciousPop MusicExhaustingAfrican Music Author:St. Lucia
“When I think back, I felt like I had the life that a lot of white American kids grew up with in the suburbs in the States. I started noticing, as Apartheid's grip weakened, that we had more and more black kids at school; I had more and more black friends. But I never really saw a separation between myself and the black kids at school.” ThinkingStatesKidsSchoolFeltBlackWhiteSawsGrewGrew UpSeparationNoticingSuburbsApartheid Author:St. Lucia
“I think I was just too young to even understand what was going on. When I was still living in South Africa, there was still so much racial tension.” ThinkingStillsYoungSouthTensionSouth AfricaRacial Tension Author:St. Lucia
“The racial conversation in the States is so multifaceted and multilayered. Obviously it's not always a positive conversation, but it's just so much more detailed than it was when I was growing up in South Africa.” StatesGrowing UpGrowingConversationSouthSouth Africa Author:St. Lucia
“I grew up in the indie world and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.” WorldWantFilmUsedBehindsGrewGrew UpIncredibles Author:Maika Monroe
“I want to work hard, and when good roles come along I don't want to pass them up.” WantHardRolesHard Work Author:Maika Monroe
“You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.” IfsKnows Author:Maika Monroe
