TED: Embracing otherness, embracing myself

 


Actor Thandie Newton tells the story of finding her "otherness" -- first, as a child growing up in two distinct cultures, and then as an actor playing with many different selves. A warm, wise talk, fresh from stage at TEDGlobal 2011.


"If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.”