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13-year-old dancer and singer Mackenzie Ziegler talks about her mission to stay positive and fight hate.
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00:00Me and my sister are actually best friends now.
00:03Before she went on tour with Sia, we were enemies.
00:06We actually did not get along at all, but now we are best friends because we missed each other.
00:19I'm Mackenzie Ziegler, I'm 13 years old, and I'm a dancer and singer.
00:25My big break would probably be being on Dance Bombs, and it was a really good experience
00:29when I had friendships that lasted a lifetime, but I definitely think I'm going to be doing
00:35big and better things now.
00:37I consider myself a regular girl from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
00:42All of my friends treat me like a regular person, so I feel like a regular person.
00:46I just came out with a new activewear collection with Justice, along with a song and music video
00:51called Teamwork, and it's all about girls coming together and being themselves.
00:55Sometimes things can get really stressful, but what I need to realize is that I only
00:59need to impress myself and not everyone else.
01:03My approach to social media would be positive and happy and uplifting because there's always
01:09those people on social media trying to bring you down and trying to hate on you,
01:12but you really just got to ignore those, so I just try to be as positive as I can.
01:16When I was little, it used to get to me a lot, and I realized that they're just people on
01:21their
01:21phones really bored and they just want to do something with their life.
01:25My mission is to stop all hate, and I feel like we all just need to love each other and
01:30be nice
01:31to each other because there's no reason for us to hate on each other.
01:33I feel powerful because I have a voice, and I get to speak my mind, and I try to be
01:40a big role
01:40model to kids and other people, so I definitely think I am powerful in some way.
01:47I feel like you always just need to impress yourself and not someone else because when
01:51I was little, I always tried to impress everyone, and I didn't act like myself,
01:56so I feel like now you just need to be yourself and be free.
01:59I feel like you are.

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