Amanda Seales

speaker

609 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard Feb 2025

Amanda Seales’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

No recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

In addition to that, we are in the midst of the age of idiocy.

This is a time where it's imperative for fascists to actually suppress intellectualism.

They need you to be dumb.

They need you to be disinterested.

They need you to be unable to have discourse without ostracizing each other.

They need that.

They need you to hate everyone who's different.

be unable to find common ground.

And you need critical thinking to do that.

You need comparative analysis skills.

You need not just being smart, but you need intelligence.

Anybody can be smart.

Intelligence is the synthesis of those ideas, of that information into new ideas that move us forward.

So that is where I exist.

And that is where, and I had fallen off

I fell off from that because I was so immersed in the goal of, you know, what it takes to succeed in Hollywood.

And it feels really good to be back in a place of being led with learning.

And so the artistic intellectual is my title.

And it's not to say that there haven't been artistic intellectuals who have come before us.

There's so many Nina Simone, James Baldwin, Gil Scott Heron, but they didn't have this title.

Showing 101–120 of 609 · page 6 of 31