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And at 16, I stumbled across another opportunity, and I earned my first acting role in a film.
當(dāng)我16歲時(shí)，我無意中遇到另一個(gè)機(jī)遇，得到了我的第一個(gè)電影角色。
I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting.
我難以找到言語來形容在表演中我感受到的平靜。
My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.
我那殘缺的自我，終于融入了不是我自己的另一個(gè)自我，這種感覺真好。
It was the first time that I existed inside a fully-functioning self -- one that I controlled, that I steered, that I gave life to.
那是我第一次存在于一個(gè)正常運(yùn)作的自我，一個(gè)我可以控制的，可以操縱的，可以賦予生命的自我。
But the shooting day would end, and I'd return to my gnarly, awkward self.
但是拍攝的日子終會(huì)結(jié)束，我也會(huì)回到我那扭曲尷尬的自我。
By 19, I was a fully-fledged movie actor, but still searching for definition.
當(dāng)我19歲時(shí)，我已經(jīng)是一個(gè)羽翼豐滿的電影演員，但卻仍在尋找定義。
I applied to read anthropology at university. Dr. Phyllis Lee gave me my interview, and she asked me, "How would you define race?"
我在大學(xué)里申請攻讀人類學(xué)。Phyllis Lee博士對我進(jìn)行了面試，她問我：“你怎樣定義種族？”
Well, I thought I had the answer to that one, and I said, "Skin color." "So biology, genetics?" she said."
嗯，我覺得我有答案，然后我說：“膚色。” 她繼續(xù)問道：“也就是生物學(xué)基因上的差異？”
Because, Thandie, that's not accurate. Because there's actually more genetic difference between a black Kenyan and a black Ugandan than there is between a black Kenyan and, say, a white Norwegian.
“因?yàn)椋５希w色并不準(zhǔn)確。在一個(gè)黑皮膚的肯尼亞人和一個(gè)黑皮膚的烏干達(dá)人之間存在的基因差異，實(shí)際上超過在一個(gè)黑皮膚的肯尼亞人和一個(gè)，比如說，白皮膚的挪威人之間的差異。
Because we all stem from Africa. So in Africa, there's been more time to create genetic diversity."
因?yàn)槲覀兌计鹪从诜侵蓿栽诜侵蓿锌赡墚a(chǎn)生基因多樣性。”
In other words, race has no basis in biological or scientific fact. On the one hand, result. Right?
換句話說，種族這一說法并沒有生物學(xué)或科學(xué)基礎(chǔ)，一方面，這是結(jié)果，對嗎？
On the other hand, my definition of self just lost a huge chunk of its credibility.
另一方面，我對自我的定義則失去了相當(dāng)大一部分的可信度。
But what was credible, what is biological and scientific fact, is that we all stem from Africa -- in fact, from a woman called Mitochondrial Eve who lived 160,000 years ago.
可以相信的，以及生物學(xué)和科學(xué)事實(shí)，就是我們都起源于非洲。實(shí)際上，起源于一個(gè)叫做線粒體夏娃的女人，她生活在十六萬年前。
And race is an illegitimate concept which our selves have created based on fear and ignorance.
種族是一個(gè)不合法的概念，是我們基于恐懼和無知自己創(chuàng)造出來的。
