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Amandla Stenberg Quotes

born 1998 United States

Amandla Stenberg (born 23 October, 1998) is an American actress and musician.

United States
Actresses
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The line between cultural appropriation and cultural exchange is always going to be blurry

I thought a lot about the concept of cultural dysphoria, and how that can shape how people relate to the world

Being an actor is one of the few professions where, as an adult, you get to play!

I don’t think there’s ever been a moment where I’ve thought social media is not for me, because I’m obsessed with social media. I have three meme accounts!

our collective relationship to the truth has become far more chaotic.”

We have a unique voice because we grow up with the ability to empathize. We constantly have to do the work of placing ourselves in other people’s shoes

I think already, at age 12, I was like, Yeah, people are racist. Why are y’all surprised?

I have always had and continue to have a lot of disillusionment around social media, particularly now

I don’t particularly like putting forward an image of myself that’s too true to reality

I’m not sure if social-media activism serves the cause in the long term

Now that I’m growing older, I find that my source of power comes from my identity and ethnicity

I recognize that people who respond negatively to what I have to say aren’t at a place yet where they are able to learn

It wasn’t until I started living in other places that I realized that growing up with the backdrop of a mountainscape is not everyone’s experience

Social media really shaped me and my generation and our ability to organize or express our thoughts

I often find myself in situations where I am the token black person

I think as a queer person, kind of everything I do in the public sphere is drag in some capacity

Now you can go on Instagram and you can see a girl who looks like you who is killing the game and expressing herself. Just being able to see that is so affirming

Though the intentions are generally excellent with respect to giving a voice to those who were too long silenced, the movements that came before us, in the past, perhaps had more weight

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Amandla Stenberg (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.