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For a long time I thought I knew for sure who I was. I grew up in New Orleans and became a comedian. And there was everything that came along with that. The nightclubs. The smoking. The drinking. Then I turned 13.

— Ellen DeGeneres

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I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.

If we don't want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we're stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions, by what we do.

You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.

I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.

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