"I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot."

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So much of my work is as Yara, not as a character. If you're attacking my work as a philanthropist or activist, you're attacking Yara. But because of "Black-ish" and this national audience we have, I get to have a larger or louder voice.

— Yara Shahidi