So much. Gloria and gloria, thats so interesting because i think lot of us have had to, still deal with, that still have t living in both worlds. But dina, you were forced to embrace one identity and hollywood, right i feel like i was living in three worlds there was my world that i grew up in, also Spanish Speaking home, human parents, and the you go out to the world and i speaking english, and im in the bronx, south bronx and then going into this industry as an actress, then nobody recognizes you as eithe one. There was no place for me as a latina, and then as a blac woman, i didnt identify as black woman because for me, it was cultural because of course, i present black, im a black women, i am also cuban when you are here in the unite states and they ask you, put you into a box, and you don fit into the box, culturally i was different. It was not one that identified with, but to work, to survive, it was something that i had to learn. To then learn to be whatever black was. And then
learn. to then learn to be whatever black was. and then feel like i was alienating that other part o myself, that latina self it just kind of became i jed mind trick to keep myself from just being sad all the tim about not being able to full experience and express the entirety of myself i think that s ou superpower though, ultimately. the fact that we had thi discomfort i tell my students, my own people now, that freak out tha you have, that, what did you call it? jedi gays? my jedi mind trick. jedi mind trick, okay, th fact that we can be in tha space where it s just like, am i enough am i here? and this and by that? it s my spanish good enough? is my english good enough? whatever, that is ou superpower it is the fact that we can liv with that.