Candice Marie Woods, who stars as Diana Ross in Broadway's 'Ain't Too Proud,' discusses carrying on the singer's legacy.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Woods prefers they/them pronouns]
the n-word. They had been assigned to a group project with a boy who hit them with the cruelest insult that a young person could hear. But the future Misswas raised too well by her tenacious mother to let it bring them down. Not only did they emerge undaunted, they left their childhood home of Dallas for New York City just three years later to train at The School of American Ballet.
Growing up in Texas was an interesting thing. I didn't know what I was experiencing [with racism] until after [it happened]. I was assigned to be in a project with a white boy who then said to me that he “didn't want to work with no n*gger.” And I think that was the first time I was referred to as a “n*gger.” But Igrowing up in the dance world. There were just very few black dancers in Texas who people wanted to discuss. I couldn't find tights that matched my skin.
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