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Just don't pollute something that's not dirty. I want my kids to be happy and I want them to be themselves. I was saying to a friend the other day, 'Remember, our kids are not us.' They're not. Sometimes we're trying to fix things that happened to us or projecting [onto them], and that's a terrible, terrible trap.

Jada Pinkett Smith

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Jada Pinkett Smith
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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