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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 t ....
And what paint me the most was within our own community within the latino community, there were so beaten down by hollywood, they kept telling m to be quiet. i think that s also because, you know, of my childhood. you know, coming from abject poverty, being a child, and th child welfare system, being in new york state, and all of that, people looked at m differently. and people treated m differently, even when i was a little girl, i would be, lik no, you can t do that. no, i am not like that and so, it just stuck with me. how were you able t overcome all that stuff? therapy intense therapy. all right, by the, way it i looked on down a lot in ou culture. when did you start therapy oh my goodness. i started therapy, i believe it was 1999. you are ahead of your time, 1999 and did somebody say yo need therapy or did you just say, i nee therapy? someone definitely said, yo need therapy [laughs] ....