Yara Shahidi's Quotes in Elle Magazine August 2020
Yara Shahidi Discusses the Value of Black Joy and "Handing Over the Mic" to Empower Others
![On being raised to be socially minded: "This idea of consistently being of service to the world around you is a dialogue that we were raised with, starting with grandparents on both sides of my family and then into the conversations in our household. I'm beyond grateful that our house has been consistently a place of conversation and a place of action since I was young."
On the value of amplifying different voices: "When I'm looking at this moment at large, there is this kind of double-edged sword of wanting people to speak up and then [thinking that they're] not speaking up the right way. It's something that I'm personally even conflicted about. In this moment, for example, I think a lot of the work that I'm hoping to do is about pointing people toward the organizers and the people on the front lines of this movement, because they have the most prescient, most real, most necessary voices. The greatest skill about having a platform, I think, is handing over the mic."](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/xZ4ny3_rjjkdDOrosO4ctX_EvAc/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2020/07/15/610/n/1922398/82ac967458a20fa2_el-yara_shahidi-14-logo/i/On-being-raised-to-be-socially-minded-This-idea-consistently.jpg "On being raised to be socially minded: \"This idea of consistently being of service to the world around you is a dialogue that we were raised with, starting with grandparents on both sides of my family and then into the conversations in our household. I'm beyond grateful that our house has been consistently a place of conversation and a place of action since I was young.\"
On the value of amplifying different voices: \"When I'm looking at this moment at large, there is this kind of double-edged sword of wanting people to speak up and then [thinking that they're] not speaking up the right way. It's something that I'm personally even conflicted about. In this moment, for example, I think a lot of the work that I'm hoping to do is about pointing people toward the organizers and the people on the front lines of this movement, because they have the most prescient, most real, most necessary voices. The greatest skill about having a platform, I think, is handing over the mic.\""){kind=logo}
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