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 accep
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 acti
And when I'm 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
I was in Congo in February, dancing and celebrating with women who've 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
I grew up on the coast of England in the '70s. 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 ch
Strangely, these revelations didn't 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
