Shoniqua Shandai on Embracing Blackness & Breaking Barriers 💪 | SWAY’S UNIVERSE

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an NAACP award nominated actress right
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here Citi give her a big round of
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applause for
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that she's a quad she's a multifaceted
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threat right now is she quadruple threat
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I'm going to give her
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quadruple okay amazing young lady who um
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I really became familiar with her work
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with the series Harlem being that I'm a
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harlem resident of 25 years come on
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stand up
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and it was a show that I really wanted
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to support cuz a good friend of mine uh
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Megan Good is a part of it right but
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this this um assembly of um amazing
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actresses that and actors that came
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together for Harlem and just the
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portrayal of Harlem and some of the
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scenes you'll see in places that you
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hang out at in Harlem it just felt
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really close to home we we are huge
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supporters of this show but I think in
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every series you know you kind of
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gravitate towards a character and we
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just all agreed we was like but oh my
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gosh who is this Angie like we all have
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an Angie we know a Angie we want to be
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we wish we could all be an Angie at
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times and so I personally we had
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everybody laughing in the room but I
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personally was like I'm going to just DM
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her like I don't even care I'm just
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going to take a chance DM her and say
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you need to be on this show we want to
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love on you we want to hug on you and we
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want to most definitely give you your
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flowers and remind you that God has got
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you here God has got your back and you
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are here so welcome her finally to the
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[Music]
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show
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go oh my God I'm so glad to be
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here I'm a little Blown Away by you the
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way you came in and the way you stepped
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into the building today it just it just
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made me go this is a person who loves
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she does and knows how to show up
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properly no matter what like you're
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conscious of all these things did you
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learn that or is this who you were
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always from your childhood um it I
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always was like this I found that like
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my fashion the way that I showed up
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became almost like a rebellion to places
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and people and and political beings that
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want to silence black women that want
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you to be as small as possible you dark
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skinned you need to sit in that corner
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you need you wear your natural hair you
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need to stop and no one wants to hear
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you or see you and I almost feel like my
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Artistry my expression became almost
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like a yeah a rebellion of that like I
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cons consider myself like an artistic
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activism when it comes to things like
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that like oh you want me to be quiet
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honey I'm coming in with rainbows on
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that's what you do I love that does that
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also that energy play into your name cuz
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I love your name so much it's
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unmistakably black it's girly I have a
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peer who's also Shena she's Shena
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Golding and last year she put out um a
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book of essays called the black girl in
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the middle and the very first essay is
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dedicated to her name and the Very
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distinct black experience of being a
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woman named Shena yeah cuz you have some
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folks who don't see it as distinguished
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some folks who feel like you shouldn't
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put it on a resume because you won't get
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a job some folks are just like all right
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I know you you ghetto what else yeah
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what's been your experience um I had the
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same experience I've written monologues
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and pieces and everything about my name
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I remember there was a time where I used
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to hate when my mom would say my name in
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public like please don't call my name I
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would want I went by different names
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there were moments when I said I was a
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Janet or a Charlie or a Oliver or
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anything to be able to disassociate
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myself from what people immediately
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think about Blackness there were moments
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where I changed the way I talk and I try
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to act more demure just so that when you
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see me you I don't act the way you think
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a Sheniqua is and then finally I was
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like love every part of my being I'm so
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excited and and proud of all of the
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nuance and and and beautiful complex
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layers that make me as an individual so
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I just ended up literally right before I
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decided to use my first and my middle
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name shenik was Shand day as like my
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stage name I was um debating on being
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Oliver Rose but amose Oliver Rose but
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then Amber Rose came out and I was like
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never mind it's gonna be
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Shena I love it and I love to that names
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that make you use the fullness of your
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tongue like you have to speak to me
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intention intentionally to be able to
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say my name and if you're not willing to
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learn my name then I know immediately
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who you are so yeah please get all of
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this the Sheniqua and the Sha I love
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that you you you smell like a like what
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you was sniffing her when did you sniff
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when you got a hug
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yeah you know her M I know her mom
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listens to the show so I'm good m
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she's a c come get on camera m come get
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on camera get on camera so shy but
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literally it is not operate without my
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mama come on come momy we we got a live
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citizen here lady lay on the track
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brought her in off Queen she's so
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shy this is going to be a milone moment
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I love it like this is a first she don't
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come out a camera but she's always here
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what what do we call you Mama they yeah
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Mama ala Mama Alaya welcome to the show
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Mama I didn't feel right calling you
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Mama I call you sister Mama Alaya
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welcome to the so you listen to the show
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huh I do I watch it on YouTube you do
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let me do this for you Mama laaya you
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officially a
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citizen
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y welcome what we don't I have an
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amazing daughter right um remind me of
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your daughter you know she steps into
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the room and you just want to be next to
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the energy I don't know what it is I
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just got to be next to the energy and as
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a parent when your kids are choosing to
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take these routes these are gambling
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routes you know going to entertainment
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becoming a singer becoming an actor we a
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lot of times we want them to choose
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something easier yeah right but we got
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to step back and allow them their own
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path right what kind of things did you
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install in her as a child that you could
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recall and you saw in her never give up
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never give up and we gave up
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everything because I knew there was
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something special in her wow wow yeah I
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left Virginia and went to LA no job no
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place to live but I knew she was
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supposed to be there m yeah wow do you
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have a a first memory um of experiencing
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shenique was like maybe seeing her do a
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monologue hearing her sing what was that
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first memory that made you say huh we
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have some here she was four and did
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Proud Mary in a mall in front of
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hundreds of people and um I knew then
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yeah Mary Proud Mary Tina
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turn at the ball okay I was far too
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young but What's Love Got to Do With It
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was my favorite movie uhhuh at four
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years of age I'mma do that h h h how did
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y'all deal with rejection in this
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business cuz I know it came often right
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I for for me it was honestly a blessing
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to have my mother my mother has been
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with me every step of the way and there
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are moments that she believes in me more
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than I believe in myself and so when
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those rejections would come having
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someone who is also in support of the
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dream and who reminds you who you are
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and that this one no doesn't make you
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it's a no to that opportunity but it's
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not a no to you was profound in me
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continuing to to carry on because um
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being able to go home and have someone
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who knew who I was and and could
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encourage me when my my t was feeling
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low um was a game changer I think I love
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this shenik wah
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Shand I had to use my whole mouth to say
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that I'm not mother here right
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here Shena um I like you I'm sure in
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your household my my parents my mother
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taught me about the power of my
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blackness right and so throughout my
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career that's always been a constant
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thread I used as my shield even when I
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wasn't flexing it I used it as my
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security blanket walking in different
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Arrangements different just different
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environments like like you're speaking
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of when did you learn the power and and
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this is to speak to all actresses or
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actors or people in in um entertainment
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who are being told that the Hue of your
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skin is a disadvantage when I always saw
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it as an advantage mhm at what stage in
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your career did you lean on it and
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decide you know know what regardless of
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how they receive me this is who I am
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yeah and this is what it's going to be
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lean into it um I want to say maybe
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around the age of like 24 okay I
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remember you know I grew up in in the
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'90s where there was a a flood of black
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faces on TV there was you know Family
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Matters and girlfriends and everything
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else and then by the time I entered the
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industry and got out of college all of a
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sudden there was none of us like I think
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it was like a rer strike and and then
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also so the game had been canceled and
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that was like the last black show and so
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all you had as a level of representation
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was Tristan Wilds on 90210 he was
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holding us down by him he was doing his
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thing trist was the one black
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representation that we had he was tired
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but he got it done I'm M we are all on
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your back you know and so there was a
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moment where I found myself trying
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that's when I went through the like let
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me change my name let me change my voice
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let me but at the end of the day I am a
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curvy black woman it doesn't matter how
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I change my inflection it doesn't matter
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if what hair I wear like I I'm down in
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my spirit I love my blackness so much
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and it wasn't only just my blackness it
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was understanding that the unique thing
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that I bring that every experience that
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I've ever had is what creates the the
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stew and the gumbo that is shenik wand
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so it doesn't matter who else is in the
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room and doesn't matter who else I am
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auditioning again against no one is
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going to bring me to the table because
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no one has experienced all that I have
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and so I think the most the more that
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you lean into the uniqueness that is you
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it's adding to what you bring and I
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think that's in any um industry
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whatsoever if you lean in the authentic
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thing that makes you who you are you're
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automatically going to have a unique and
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and a different perspective and add to
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the table because there's only one you
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and I think if we can Embrace that and
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and and get out of that the idea of like
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competing with people I'm like honey
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this auditioning is happening you need
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to go there because you can't take
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nothing from me that's mine there you go
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come on that's not a competition no I'm
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only competing with myself there it is
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man Shena Shanda so with that being said
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Shenika was Angie specifically written
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for you through Tracy and everybody with
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Harlem or what was your audition process
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like um I that's so longwinded I'm
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long-winded period but like girl wrap it
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up but I got this audition through a
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agent and it was saying it was Tracy
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Oliver and girl trip was out the time
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and I'm like this like pioneer
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trailblazing uh writer and I saw that it
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required nudity and I was like why did
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you even send this to me because you
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know I don't do that and I don't even
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want to be tempted so like if there's
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things that I morally am not don't send
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it to me not that I'm but you never know
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cuz sometimes somebody saying me
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sometime if someone saying money you
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ain't never seen before you might be
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like maybe I'm going to pop out this
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titty one time
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sorry M sorry but so I'm like don't even
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send it my way and so I was like why did
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you do that and he's like well I'm going
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go to Tracy and we're going to see and
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then literally I think maybe in like 10
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minutes she was like she doesn't have to
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do that she just have to be okay with
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this and I was like oh perfectly fine
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but also like what an environment that
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would be to work in to have someone who
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is breaking records in the box office
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that's when you can have all the ego in
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the world I mean to like I'll alter this
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for someone I don't know you know and so
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I got the script and and did two
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auditions in person and they were like
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oh my God she was lovely she was magical
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and then I did the test and they was
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like we don't feel the magic and I was
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like oh no we don't feel the magic
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anymore um and I think cuz I was so
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concerned about the singing like the
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second test the first the second
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audition I went in and I sang my little
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go-to song but by the by the test I was
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like okay they gonna have me singing
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singing so let me pull out a hard song
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that I can and I got so obsessed with it
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that I like lost the Gen quad the
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excitement the fun Angie is fun you know
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what I mean so if if you're not having
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fun while doing it you're not doing the
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job right and so yeah I I read again for
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the the third test the second test and
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Megan was there and by this time Jerry
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and Grace had already got the part and
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it just felt like we were in there and I
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literally heard the girlfriend's Anthem
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playing in my head and I was like this
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feels right so yeah it was a long one
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but I think it was a long process but I
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think it was what it help me remain
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humble because you know you get up and
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you be like look and you can't tell me
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nothing but actually the Lord did tell
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me something yeah
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right let let you know it's real and
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this is the final SE this is the final
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season right of Harlem so make sure yall
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watching Harlem so good oh my gosh okay
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um Megan Good As I said is somebody I've
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known for a long time I I'll give Megan
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I'll say her name give her a round of
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applause yes the icon the angel yes
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indeed the new cover of ebony okay
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absolutely she got a new cover ebony go
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ahead man get it get it she she U
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started a company with my daughter's
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godmother Tamara bass who's also a
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director and actor so I've known when
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they first started that I've known them
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since way back in the day I I've EP some
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projects with Megan what right and the
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thing about her is to me she's such a
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solid strong pillar of a person who has
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had to have her life just put on a
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platter for everybody to see right
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and she had to respond to it and stand
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strong to it and look at her now you
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know uh she tell us something about
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Megan that the public wouldn't know
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Megan is this is easy Megan is probably
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one of the kindest people I've ever met
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in my whole entire life like she creates
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the reason why I think we everyone loves
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Harlem is because the chemistry that you
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see is so real and that's a huge
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Testament to Megan when you have someone
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who's like the leadership position they
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affect what the environment becomes and
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her being so welcoming and generous and
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kind and someone who Advocates and says
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hey if something's not right let's all
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come together like she led us in love
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and so I think people need to just like
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give her all of her flowers she's
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brilliant she does Dr like can we why do
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we even why do I even have to say this
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but the sis does sci-fi fantasy action
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drama and has the like comedic timing of
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Lucio ball at the same time like the is
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vast and also so humble so Megan's
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Perfection I love how you talk I just
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want to ask you questions to get your
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answers I didn't hear thing she
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said wow this is so dope yeah have you
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been able to enjoy um some of the the
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fruits of your labor The Spoils of being
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in the spotlight this is the spoil right
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now okay s morning would have to be a
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Tracy seriously like um I'm just so
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grateful I feel like all of my dreams
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are coming true at once like I've always
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been sure about acting I always knew who
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I was but music Felt So Far Away music
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felt Impossible music felt terrifying I
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didn't believe in myself I didn't think
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the world had space for me and then you
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get a certain age and and it's very
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agist for women and so to have like
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music being received this way and
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finally being courageous to stand on
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business on something a dream of mine
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I've been wanting to do for so long that
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felt impossible I just feel like God is
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like girl anything you want it's it's
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really a big Testament to like if God
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gives you a vision he is not a man that
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he should lie it's not a matter of if
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but when and if you could just remain
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and hold on to the seed that God is
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giving you and just nourish it and pour
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into it like just you just never know
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when it's going to happen so just remain
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steadfast in whatever that dream that
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inkling God is giving you because it it
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it might feel impossible to you but what
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is impossibility to God come on
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shenik
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Shand wow
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sh hey this song and her music is
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amazing we played two songs live on the
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a back to back did gorgeous song she
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look like is this playing right now yes
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right now live country and if Feel My
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Love is the latest single right yes and
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um the way you sing that Thank You song
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and it's a and the song is about
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devotion right yeah it's about
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commitment and you know vow right yeah
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um these songs don't have to be inspired
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by a person per se right what inspired
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this one um I wanted to write about the
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love that I wanted I feel like I've said
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this before but I feel like if we have
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to be so intentional with our words if
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life and death is in the power of the
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tongue that we speak how much more so in
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music and I really wanted to be to use
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this as an opportunity to be intentional
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and responsible about the lyrics I'm
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putting out there and make it a musical
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prayer of Love of healthiness a love
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that not only changes the two people in
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it but the environment surrounding them
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because that's what good love does it
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affects the community it makes you want
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to love differently because you see
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something different and so this is like
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my musical prayer really to bring in the
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man I want and bring in that healthy
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love and and a man so good I want to
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call his mama and say girl you did that
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you know so I've done that before yes D
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you done that you made him multiple
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times you thank the parent yes I call
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yeah my part because it's it's
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incredible and like you said it's not
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something that impacts one person
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there's a lot of decisions that people
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had to make before I even met this man
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you know decisions to have the child
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decision how you're going to raise
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raising because it's a lot of people
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with when parents both in the home but
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honey you w raised right so yeah this is
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a a big kudos to everyone who was raised
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well laughing Shena and Tracy and Mama
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Shena cuz I've been married 23 years I
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Ain never called my mother-in-law said
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[ __ ] go
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home be answering theone go you really
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sping down Billy go home heav well
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hopefully it might shift the Dynamics of
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your relationship because that's what
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good love does let me say this a lot of
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times when you're in the industry uh
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you're nut HP a lot of time in the
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industry it's harder to find those
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people because of the nature of your
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work M but I'm over that come on now cuz
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we can have it all you can have it all
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right and if somebody is intimidated by
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the nature of your work then maybe that
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person isn't right for the position
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right that part has that happened oh
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absolutely absolutely you have people
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who are attracted to the light who are
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attracted to everything that you are but
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then actually being beside it becomes
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larger than what they expected and I
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have to remind myself just similar to
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kind of what Angie is going through this
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season that like whether I'm an actress
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or a singer or not I'm always a star I'm
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always a light I'm always going to show
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up radiantly and so it doesn't matter if
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it's a career that's making you insecure
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or if it's uh me putting on a Gucci
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dress but whether I'm in leggings or
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sweatpants the energy will be remain the
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same and so what I need in a
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relationship is to make sure that this
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is good soil that I can be nourished and
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grow to my fullest potential if there's
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any we were talking about it today if
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there's a little figment of I got to let
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it go and let me save F on letting it go
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cuz sometimes it's easy to run and just
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spin the block sometimes but I I think
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the the the biggest thing for me is that
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remembering how the reflection of the
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love that I have in my relationships
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with friends the reflection the way that
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my mother loves me the way that my best
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friend shows up for me my my man got you
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got to love me more than my friends you
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got to treat me better than my friends
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do and I have magnificent friends so if
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they ain't meeting that and and if
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they're insecure God bless you but you
21:20
got to find somebody else you're not
21:21
going to make me smaller
21:23
shenik
21:25
Shand okay the new song is feel my
21:28
that's out now the music video just
21:30
dropped today too I saw it music video
21:33
and so this the route we on right now
21:35
right yes yes you performing soon or
21:38
yeah I'm doing my first televised
21:40
performance I'll be on a Porsche show in
21:42
Atlanta I'm so excited shout out to por
21:45
congratulations yes I'm in rehearsals
21:47
for that because I'm like I got to step
21:49
out with my my two feet down yes indeed
21:52
um so I'm in rehearsals for that all the
21:55
time and um I just shot the visuals for
21:58
my coming single black with by Dereck
22:00
blanks oh I'm doing a Feel My Love
22:01
challenge okay for you know February I
22:04
want the people to feel my love we
22:05
giving out some custom jewelry custom
22:08
Feel My Love pieces it's the same
22:10
designer Water Street Jewelers who did
22:12
my jewelry for the ebony feature and
22:15
Daniela also did my jewelry for um the F
22:17
my love music video so we're giving out
22:20
two people it'll be on my page it drops
22:22
February 1 and then we're announcing the
22:23
winners February 14th so get you some
22:26
custom give out your page give out your
22:28
page it's Shena sha day Shena sh h o n i
22:32
quu a s h a n d a i you know people like
22:36
to switch the mobs okay all right so I I
22:39
I would love for by the way Mom you've
22:41
been a great citizen here
22:44
just you got you pulled her out to
22:47
that's a true that's a true citizen hey
22:50
hey Shen before we in the show it I I
22:53
thought maybe and I know I didn't say I
22:54
was going to do this but you s you sound
22:56
so good on these songs I people to hear
22:59
you a capella just a little bit is that
23:01
okay my God I would love to okay just
23:03
something and and you want to do that
23:04
wait hold up before you do that before
23:06
you do that we got something for you
23:09
just to show you the appreciation we
23:11
have for you officially give you flowers
23:14
H wanted to make sure you had those no I
23:16
just I love you sis you just man and
23:20
thank you for responding to my crazy DM
23:22
thank you for sliding in my DMs you
23:24
don't understand this is a dream come
23:26
true it really is to be welcomed in
23:29
these spaces this way is something that
23:31
I've always prayed for and so you this
23:34
moment right now I'm living in a prayer
23:37
W damn that's amazing that's amazing man
23:39
let me not mess it up go ahead and sing
23:41
something um this is feel my
23:44
love I have been
23:47
waiting for someone so real I knew you
23:52
were coming but God would reveal and
23:58
King you
23:59
in enriching my soul now I want you to
24:06
feel oh
24:08
my oh my God
24:11
yeah they lining up
24:14
outside bunch of dudes lining up outside
24:17
right now the chocolate chipp andells
24:21
outside yo let's give give it up for
24:23
Shenika shande thank you and make sure
24:26
you watch the final season of
24:29
yes and then also make sure you pick up
24:31
her music streaming on all platforms I
24:33
want to thank your mom thank you m thank
24:36
you for being here your whole team you
24:38
got a great team here man yeah I got
24:39
some blessed people around me I got
24:41
Angels around me yes indeed shout them
24:43
out say their names we like to okay
24:44
Kayla doson on the Beats okay she is on
24:47
this face making this skin look like
24:49
skin and Austin Evans making this hair
24:52
look like it came out my SC yeah it did
24:54
okay you didn't damn no all right all
24:56
right okay lace well okay and that man
25:00
on the camera yes good old Jackson
25:03
Albert this man is so phenomenal like my
25:06
first time ever directing he brought in
25:09
the crew and helped me lead with so much
25:13
kindness and joy and fun and incredible
25:16
talent and trusted me and he's also
25:18
worked on Amazon's got him to do some
25:21
Harlem please everybody book Dexter
25:23
Albert but also Mr Dexter make some room
25:26
for me when not when you available okay
25:28
that's what but this man he records and
25:29
edits down okay man whole team right
25:32
there it's important you got the you got
25:33
the right team we was talking about that
25:35
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