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I didn’t really have anyone who looked like me to look up to when I was a kid, except, honestly, Raven-Symoné, a queer Black woman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
The discourse around these celebrities shouldn’t center, for instance, on whatever message their body image might be sending to young people who look up to them.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
“In the movie version of it I look up to the sky and I’m like, ‘I hear you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
I want to be the kind of dad that my kids look back on and think I was present and loving and the kind of person they’d look up to.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
And I knew that Bela Lugosi was an epic actor from the ancient world whom people like Sahil still look up to today.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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