Embracing otherness. When I first heard this theme, I thought, well, embracing otherness is embracing myself.拥抱他人。当我第一次听到这个主题时，我觉得拥抱他人就是拥抱我自己。And the journey to that place of understanding and acceptance has been an interesting one for me,对于我来说，通往理解和接纳的路是十分有意思的。and it&#39s given me an insight into t

And at 16, I stumbled across another opportunity, and I earned my first acting role in a film.当我16岁时，我无意中遇到另一个机遇，得到了我的第一个电影角色。I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting.我难以找到言语来形容在表演中我感受到的平静。My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and

And when I&#39m acting a role, I inhabit another self, and I give it life for awhile, because when the self is suspended so is divisiveness and judgment.当我表演一个角色时，我进入了另一个自我，我在一段时间内赋予其生命，当自我被抑制时，它的多样性和判断也会一同被抑制。And I&#39ve played everything from a vengeful ghost in the time of slavery to Secretary of

I was in Congo in February, dancing and celebrating with women who&#39ve survived the destruction of their selves in literally unthinkable ways --二月份的时候我在刚果，与那些自我曾遭受难以想象的毁灭的女人们一起跳舞庆祝。destroyed because other brutalized, psychopathic selves all over that beautiful land are fueling our selves&#39 addic

I grew up on the coast of England in the &#3970s. My dad is white from Cornwall, and my mom is black from Zimbabwe.我于上世纪七十年代，生长在英格兰的海岸边，我父亲是来自康沃尔的白人，我母亲是来自津巴布韦的黑人。Even the idea of us as a family was challenging to most people. But nature had its wicked way, and brown babies were born.对于许多人来说，是无论如何也想

Strangely, these revelations didn&#39t cure my low self-esteem, that feeling of otherness.奇怪的是，这些启示，并没有治愈我那缺少的自尊，那种被划为另类的感觉。My desire to disappear was still very powerful. I had a degree from Cambridge I had a thriving career,我渴望消失的想法依旧十分强烈，我有一个剑桥的学位，我的事业蒸蒸日上。but my self was a car crash, and I wound

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