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I identify myself as a Nigerian because that is where I was born and raised and where my family still lives.

Toks Olagundoye

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Toks Olagundoye
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 16
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I pretty much only wear high heels.
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When I'm just walking around, I swap between the British and the American, and when I'm with my family I'm with my Nigerian accent.
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I think I have a very strange, hybrid accent, and I've worked very hard to get a solid American accent, which is what I use most of the time.
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I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out.
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My name is very specific to my family. I'm very proud of being Nigerian. I understand that most people can't pronounce it, but that's OK.
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People tend to comment on my feet a lot. In daily life.
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Accents are very easy for me.
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What's normal to you is normal to you.
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Not to be purple, but I've never been a 'bad boy' kind of girl. I like manners.
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We are all different and that's okay.
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You're able to do more when you're not clouded with wasted anxiety.
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