Where Hands TouchAmandla Stenberg (born October 23, 1998) is an American actress. She[note 1] began her career as a child and received recognition for playing Rue in the action film The Hunger Games (2012). As she grew older, she appeared in the supernatural series Sleepy Hollow (2013–2014) and the romance film Everything, Everything (2017). She received praise for her performance as a teenager witnessing a police shooting in the drama film The Hate U Give (2018). She then starred in the comedy horror film Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) and the Star Wars series The Acolyte (2024).
Outside of acting, Stenberg made her musical debut in 2015, performing as part of the folk rock duo Honeywater, and performed the song "Let My Baby Stay" for Everything, Everything. She is also noted for her activism towards LGBTQ youth, and was included on Time's lists of most influential teens in 2015 and 2016.
Writing
Stenberg co-wrote the comic book Niobe: She is Life with Sebastian Jones, which was illustrated by Ashley A. Woods, and published in November 2015.[52][62] It is the first nationally distributed comic that has a black woman as its protagonist, author, and another as the artist.[63] In 2017, Stenberg and Sebastian Jones released Niobe: She is Death, the second part of the trilogy.[64]
In a July 2017 interview, Stenberg said she had stopped using a smartphone, believing that such devices and social media can have a negative effect on mental health.[76] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amandla_Stenberg
25,000 Black Germans existed in the Third Reich, including the Rhineland children.
When 15-year old Leyna (Amandla Stenberg), daughter of a white German mother and a black African father meets Lutz (George MacKay), a member of the Hitler Youth ¬- compulsory for all Aryan boys since 1936. They are bound by the realization of the horrors being committed against the Jews. As Leyna tries to avoid the fate of black Germans at the time, Lutz too must struggle against the fate laid before him during the most brutal of times.
When she said, “You’re not supposed to love me!” And he replied, “BUT I DO!” The story had me in stitches! What a sad but BEAUTIFUL love story! If a person is not truly selfless, then the love is not real.
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LEYNA: I-- ANNOUNCER (ON RADIO): --relieve you from the monstrous hands of a dictator-- Mother, I just need some fresh air.
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ANNOUNCER (ON RADIO): --who convinced you he would free Germany, and instead-- Leyna. ANNOUNCER (ON RADIO): --has broken it.
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She's a negro.
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Leyna.
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HITLER YOUTH: [singing in german]
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Leyna?
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That's your name? Why did you come?
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You could get into a lot of trouble. SS OFFICER: Heil Hitler! I wanted to see what it's like. ALL: Heil Hitler!
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See what he does here. Koen. He's my brother.
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I know. I have seen him with you. Were you spying on us?
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Only once. He's German.
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Of course. SS OFFICER: [speaking german]
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I've seen a lady that looks like you. In a photograph.
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Well not really a photograph.
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My father, he has a gramophone. He hides jazz records, but I've heard them playing quietly.
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Sometimes, late at night, when I'm in my room, if I press my ear to the floor, I hear.
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Negermusik. Isn't that what it's called?
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It's not allowed. (SINGING) When we're in a friendly situation,
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my conversation might not be smart.
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But if we're to have a perfect understanding, let's call a heart a heart.
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On the cover of one of the magazines there's a lady. She's like you. Kind of beautiful.
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You'll get into trouble singing those songs. I'll just have to be careful. Like my father.
3:02 It's been a long time, that's all. I have dreams that I'm drowning.
43:55 You have Jews here? It's just the three of us. My son is asleep, in the bedroom. 44:05 Where are her papers? Go fetch them, Leyna. 44:17 It's all right, Koen. They'll go soon. 44:56 GESTAPO SOLDIER: Born in Rudesheim. German. 45:03 You are a Negro, but you say you are German. 45:15 [sobbing] 45:42 We will have them replaced. 45:57 You, er, won't be reporting to SS Leiber. He thinks you'll be of more use elsewhere. 46:03 Fighting? We need every man we can get. 46:10 Oh, so you do realize that our men are freezing to death on the Russian front? They are dying with honor. 46:16 It's not for nothing. No, it's for blind delusion. Are we finished? 46:23 May I go now? Lutz, wait. Your mother fought for her life with every part of her being. 46:34 She wouldn't want to see you throw away yours. You wear the mask that gets you through the war, 46:41 that helps you survive. Why did you fight for Germany if you don't love it? 46:47 If you weren't prepared to die. Don't judge me, Lutz. You are just as I was. I would have died for Germany 10 times over. 46:55 Others made that sacrifice then. And they will make it now. Let them. 47:03 Lutz, I am your father first of all. Do you understand? 47:08 (ANGRILY) No, I don't. You want me to feel as you feel, but you don't want me to fight like you fought. 47:14 You want me to have an independent mind, but not if it goes against yours. 47:20 Who should I be? Should I be you or not? 47:27 You are not a hero. And neither am I. 47:43 [car accelerating]