Super Soul Special: Amandla Stenberg: My Authenticity is my Activism

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🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Original Air Date: May 29, 2019 In a live appearance at UCLA’s Royce Hall, actress, social media disrupter and feminist Amandla Stenberg talks about the importance of vulnerability and finding strength in your identity. She shares her journey of becoming comfortable with her authentic self and loving who she was born to be. Amandla, who portrayed Rue in The Hunger Games, Madeline in Everything, Everything and Starr in The Hate U Give was declared "one of the most incendiary voices of her generation" by Dazed magazine. The Ms. Foundation for Women also named Amandla the Feminist Celebrity of the Year in 2015. Want more podcasts from OWN? Visit https://bit.ly/OWNPods You can also watch Oprah’s Super Soul, The Oprah Winfrey Show and more of your favorite OWN shows on your TV! Visit https://bit.ly/find_OWN

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey.
0:02.0	Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast.
0:06.0	I believe that one of the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time,
0:12.0	taking time to be more fully present.
0:15.0	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us
0:21.0	starts right now.
0:25.0	Time magazine names are one of the most influential teenagers in America.
0:34.0	You first met her in the worldwide blockbuster film The Hunger Games.
0:39.0	Amanda Stenberg is just 17 years old and she already has a super soul frame of mine. I love
0:49.3	that about her. She's taken social media by storm with her fresh insights on living and awakened and authentic life.
0:59.0	A man like calls her session, my authenticity is my activism. Hi.
1:20.0	What is it to be a modern activist? My name is Amanda Stenberg.
1:22.0	My mom named me after the Zulu word for power.
1:28.0	I'm an actress.
1:29.6	I am an activist. I'm a high schooler with plans to attend NYU in the fall.
1:35.0	Thank you. When I was little I used to wear my hair in this giant poof on top of my head and I'd be
1:46.0	chilling on the playground and kids would it up to me and they would take my hood and
1:51.1	throw it over my hair and then nestle on me like I was a giant pillow.
1:56.8	And I hated it.
1:58.3	I remember going home and being like, mom, I'm a person, not a pillow.
2:04.3	She was like, okay, what do you want to do?
2:07.2	I was like, I want to change my hairstyle,
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