The outward experience may be different, but inwardly, Yara Shahidi knows the type of person she wants to be both on and off set. “With everything that I say, or with everything that I learn, I try to be more and more intersectional in just my thoughts,” she explains.
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“I think it’s fortunately very helpful, being at an intersection myself, of race, ethnicity, gender, geography. And so I’d have to say that I’m just trying every day to be the best human possible, and to figure out how I can contribute, and in which ways my platforms could be helpful, and which ways my voice can be helpful, so that I’m not speaking on behalf of somebody, but if I am able to be in a position in which I can amplify a message, then I am glad to do so.”
Catch Yara Shahidi in Grown-ish on the FreeForm network and Black-ish on ABC!
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