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Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing.
Octavia Spencer
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Octavia Spencer
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 25
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Montgomery
Alabama
Octavia Lenora Spencer
Octavia L. Spencer
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Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.
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Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you've got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it's worth it.
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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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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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