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- What's up, y'all?

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It's your girl V from The
Root and I'm checking in

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at the red carpet at Tribeca Film Festival

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at the world premier of the Netflix film

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"The Perfect Find"
featuring Gabrielle Union

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and Keith Powers

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- You good, sleeping Beauty?

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- Could you be any cuter?

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You also look like a college student.

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- I like something-

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- A little more seasoned?

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- Ooh, it means being
vulnerable and feeling safe

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and feeling protected
and feeling understood

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on a level that no one
else can understand you at.

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It should feel, it should
be a symbiotic love,

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like I give love in the way
that I wanna receive love.

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and we're on the same page.

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- It look like Gabrielle
Union and Dwyane Wade.

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That's what black love unapologetically,

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freely look like to me.

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I love how they love out loud.

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I love how affectionate they are.

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I love how unapologetic they
are, even when they might face

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whatever type of backlash at the time.

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I really think they love freely

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and I would say them, they're, to me,

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they're the definition of that.

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- It's beautiful.

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Black love is beautiful
when done correctly.

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It's beautiful, you know?

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I'm always in support of black love,

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and if you're not experiencing that,

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we gotta learn to love on
ourselves 'cause all of us

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are not in relationships
or experiencing that,

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but you can love on yourself

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and give yourself some amazing love.

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- It's the most affirming thing.

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It's the most, when you really have that,

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you really have someone that
gets your whole community,

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your whole culture, your whole background,

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that's it, that's it.

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- There's no such thing as loving black.

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I wanna make that point.

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Love has no color,

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and sometimes, and I just said,

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it takes all colors to make black.

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Therefore, love is love.

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- I don't know it yet

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because I'm still trying to discover it

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as a black trans woman,

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but I've seen black love.

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The black love that I've
seen has been unconditional,

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has been Dwyane Wade and Zaya Wade,

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Gabrielle Union, Zaya Wade.

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That's unconditional love,
especially for my community.

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That has been an amazing
display of love for me.

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