![]() ![]() Similar to me, India said that she is very picky about what she puts into her body. Lucia for this divine vegetarian creation. I'm "Wanderlusting" about India and myself on the mopeds, shopping for the most fresh fruits and vegetables we can find in St. I try to be dynamic in my food arsenal, so to create a vegetarian dish for India is a challenge that I am easily up to. She has said that she likes Thai, and also curry. I have done my research, and I know that India is a vegetarian. So, for this journey in “The Wanderlust Food Diaries” of the chronic daydreamer, that part of me I embrace as a badge of honor, having relative purity of thought and consciousness in a world of progressive chaos and darkness, takes me down to the Caribbean, to the island of St. The reason being, when company came over, and asked me to play some India Arie, I would grab my Bang & Olufsen remote with the digital LED screen and pipe her sounds through my $9,000 Bang & Olufsen stereo. However, because I thought it was the “hip” thing to have, I purchased all her CD’s and had her entire collection. I must admit, back in the late 1990's, when India Arie came on the scene with the new generation fresh, young, soulful singers, I call it "Neo-Soul", I really wasn’t into, or perhaps, wasn't ready for her music. “Where we’ll go, I don’t know, we should just let nature run the show” "Back to Nature" (.with India Arie, on St. She shared that youth of color shouldn’t try to actively seek out who they are or what they’re supposed to be, but rather “allow yourself the freedom to settle into who you are.Some Healthy Food Fun: The Wanderlust Food Diaries (of a chronic daydreamer) On finding life’s purpose, Stenberg isn’t sure she’s found hers yet, but is open to “purpose” being fluid and changing over time. “There’s a beauty in realizing you might not be like the people around you, but there are people like you.” That’s why when you’re experiencing these struggles and you choose to do your thing and love yourself regardless, it’s like a revolution.” “Any struggle, any difficulty you’re facing is giving you a tool that you can utilize in the future. ![]() “That’s what Black Girl Magic is,” Stenberg told NBCBLK. Stenberg echoed those sentiments, saying, “You can’t deny that there is a struggle and you also have to find positivity at the same time.” The better you feel when you walk out of the house that day, the better able you will be to. “I don’t think you should feel guilty about having both. “You need to be able to look in the mirror and be like, ‘I look good today!’ And then go out into the world and help the girls who have been victimized by sex trafficking,” she said. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images) Noam Galai / Getty Images ![]() India Arie performs at the 2016 MLK Now at Riverside Church on Januin New York City. “How do you say, ‘I am light life is beautiful,’ when there’s all this ugly stuff in the world? Those two things don’t have to be hinging on each other when you realize that they both do exist,” Arie told NBCBLK. INDIA ARIE SONGS LIFE IS A JOURNEY HOW TOFrom breakdown to breakthrough, Arie shared how she learned her worth using songs from her chart-topping 2013 album Songversation.īackstage at a media round-table for the Super Soul Sessions part 2 taping, NBCBLK caught up with Stenberg and Arie to discuss how to find your purpose and how to maintain joy in the midst of oppression. India Arie’s session “Songversation: Worthy” expressed Arie’s 20-year journey as an artist/activist in an industry that sought to limit who and how she could be. Stenberg shared why living authentically as a bisexual young black non-binary person is activism. ".When you’re experiencing these struggles and you choose to do your thing and love yourself regardless, it’s like a revolution.” In their sessions, which air in May on OWN and SuperSoul.TV, both artists/activists Stenberg and Arie expressed the pain and frustration that comes from being boxed into identities and ideas of being, due to systemic oppression and how they each got free. RELATED: 'Hunger Games' Star Amandla Stenberg: 'Don't Cash Crop My Cornrows' ![]()
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