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I don't think that moms, with all that's going on in our society today, would want to put their kids in front of something that will be disheartening rather than uplifting.
Octavia Spencer
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Octavia Spencer
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 25
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Film Actor
Television Actor
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Montgomery
Alabama
Octavia Lenora Spencer
Octavia L. Spencer
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I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life.
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We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until we learn to assimilate and learn about other cultures, we will continue to have racism problems. Of course, there are other '-isms' as our ills. We have sexism, ageism, elitism, homophobia-ism, there are many -isms we have to overcome.
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