Amara La Negra

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“I'm very open-minded. I would love to work with Rihanna. I know it may seem crazy right now but nothing is impossible in this world. There are many talented women I would love to work with not only here in the United States but in Brazil, in Europe so like I said, I’m very open-minded.”

“It was a lot of work. I started doing beauty pageants when I was 4 years old so my whole life I’ve known what I wanted to do. My whole life I been preparing for this. I definitely do think the struggles my mother went thru, the things I saw her do and the strength she had as an immigrant in this country to make sure I was good gave me the confidence I have today.”

“I may have big dreams, but her dreams for me are even bigger.”

“I know that nobody wants to talk about it, but we suffer a lot of racism, we suffer a lot of colorism, amongst ourselves. You know, I get it all the time: 'Oh whenever you get married, don't get married to no black man because you want to better the race,'"”

“And I remember her looking at me and her face ... it was just letting me know that this was the beginning of the struggle.”

“And [in] my family we all speak Spanish, we're Latinos. This is my culture.”

“If I say I'm Afro-Latina, you'll automatically, visually in your mind see [that] I'm dark.”