July 21, 2014
"I went home and asked my mother if I could be called Zoe. I remember she was cooking, and in her Nigerian accent she said, ‘Why?’ I said, ‘Nobody can pronounce it.’ Without missing a beat, she said, ‘If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.’"

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“Orange Is The New Black” Star Uzo Aduba On Why She Wouldn’t Change Her Nigerian Name

Good mom.

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