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I Know This Is Weird... I Am A Black Woman And I Am Not Mixed With Any Asian Blood Or Chinese Blood At All, But For Some Reason, As A Child, The Movie, The Last Emperor, Had A Serious Affect On Me. I Can't Understand Why. But There's Something That The Movie Did To Me.

-Tyra Banks

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Tyra Banks

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I Know This Is Weird... I Am A Black Woman And I Am Not Mixed With Any Asian Blood Or Chinese Blood At All, But For Some Reason, As A Child, The Movie, The Last Emperor, Had A Serious Affect On Me. I Can't Understand Why. But There's Something That The Movie Did To Me.

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