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
the concept other than, you ar repeating, it s like a mantra. but it wasn t until i had an accident in 1990, where i wa paralyzed. and i felt people s prayers. there were millions of peopl praying for me worldwide and i could feel it as a energy i felt like i was living the role, and i would absorb tha and my body, and imagine if it reconnecting nerves, doing all these things, because it was powerful and my family would walk int the rule room, they d be crying, thinking oh, she is in denial, she doesn t realize. she s not gonna walk again i would say to them, it s gonn be okay. damn. i m telling you, it s gonna be okay. just relax i am gonna do this and they couldn t believe, but i was plugged in that s when i first understood the power of friends we have somebody on the people who actually felt globa prayer yes [inaudible] you know, i wa undocumented for a long time and then, i worked on wall