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access to you. And a lot of us haven’t
had that luxury because we didn’t
have a block button. So the bridge was
always open, even though they burned
it. Now thanks to the block button the
bridge is over. Baby, bye bye. And that
has been very helpful to me just pre-
serving the sanctity and the saneness
of my space and really I work hard to
I’ve been trying to be more consistent
with meditating and getting my brain
to be still even if its five minutes in a
day. There’s always so much to look at.
I mean look at this interview. I’m just
walking down the street and I’m dis-
tracted by so many different things and
your brain is trying to manage that. You
have to let it go to sleep, the same way
you have to close your computer. Or
else it’s going to overheat. Same thing
with our intake. Also, this may sound
cliché but I try to just chill. And not
just mediate but really chill and take
time to be in good company that’s not
related to work or just go to a movie.
MADE: What stood out to you the
most on the Smart Funny and
Black tour?
real way and I don’t mean just blocking
on social, I mean on my phone. Be-
cause the reality is that fuckboys are
an epidemic at this point and you have
to protect your space at all costs. And
once you identify that someone doesn’t
care about your space or your time or
your feelings, the safest thing is for you
to prevent them from having any more
Amanda: I think what stood out to me
the most was that people were truly
attached to this without having seeing
it before. And it was because of the
necessity and the urgency of us having
this safe Black space and we just don’t
have that and we need that and I’m
not somebody who complains without
offering solutions so in creating Smart,
Funny and Black, I saw just on tour
what I thought was just a fun show
originally served as a grounder for peo-
ple and a place of refuge for people and
a site of jubilation. You just realize that
its deeper and “Oh, we’re going to come
here to laugh.” Nah, we’re coming to
learn of course, but we’re also lived our
best Black lives without judgment and
a lot of us don’t get the opportunity to
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