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
of got quiet for a second, the they got real loud so, we need to confront that like, this is a real thing let s talk about it, let s extend our arms to one another and say, we do have this thing in common, this thing that w cannot name. we do have it in common. how can we stand with each other and hold each other, uplift each other? oh my gosh, we can have a exchange of ideas without goin to fisticuffs. i desperately wanted to be mother, but what did that look like for me? did somebody say you need therapy or someone said no, yo need therapy no someone definitely said need their view.