Judas and the Black Messiahdidn’t just have a big morning it hada history-making morning.
“It ignites something in you, and then you have to look at what it brings up.
But it’s not for me to say, ‘This is what the message is.’

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I find it fascinating to see what people bring to it, or what people want to take away.
I’m trying not to dictate that.
Show what they were really doing in this time, and how revolutionary their ideas were.
“It didn’t necessarily mean destruction,” he continued.
“They were actually about healing and loving and taking care of your community.
Which is why other communities wanted to take on the ideology.
It’s about putting that out there.
Then, if people want to take it, that’s the blessing.”
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