Zoé Saldaña agradece su condecoración en el Palacio Nacional: "Esto es un sueño hecho realidad"
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00:00I'm going to have to confess that I thought this was only in your room.
00:06You gave me a little medal and then I went home.
00:10So I apologize in advance.
00:13If I speak from the heart and there is no preparation, please know that everything comes from love.
00:20I want to thank you, Mr. President, the First Lady and the Vice President.
00:25This honor is a dream come true.
00:28This is something that I did not imagine or expect,
00:33because I always feel grateful to simply wake up every day.
00:38What I was thinking when I was sitting here listening to such beautiful words from me,
00:44that until a moment came to think, but it is not from me that you are talking,
00:48is that I can explain to you the healing that gave us,
00:56having moved here at the tender age of 8, 9 and 10 years in New York,
01:03after losing our father, Aridio Saldaña,
01:06and coming here being victims of loss, being in mourning, with a lot of sadness.
01:19Little by little, this country not only gave us the right and the privilege
01:26of being close to our grandparents and great-grandparents and uncles and aunts,
01:30but what did that type of healing mean?
01:33That when they were cooking and singing in the kitchen,
01:37when they sat at a table to tell us the stories of their childhood,
01:41there we were healing, they were healing us.
01:46When I would get up in the mornings and Sundays and walk with my great-grandmother
01:49to pick up the newspaper, and then I would sit with him to eat my great-grandmother's concon,
01:56there I was healing.
01:58When I did not have the opportunity to do Olympic gymnastics,
02:04which was what I wanted to do, because the teachers at the Olympic Stadium told me
02:07that I was going to be very tall, and my mother was looking for a ballet scholarship,
02:12and we were looking for those opportunities, and there we were healing.
02:16When I dared to laugh and dream again, to accept the light of the day,
02:25to dance, I did it here on this land.
02:30And this was the land that gave me the permission and the right to dream,
02:36because healing was very Dominican, without knowing it, without knowing it.
02:47Sometimes I don't know how to explain to a foreigner what it is to be Dominican,
02:52because it is not something that I can describe with words,
02:55it is something that I do every day, and now that I am a mother,
02:58I know that I am loving my children, I am healing them,
03:02and I am raising them in a very Dominican way,
03:05and that is the greatest pride I have,
03:07because being Dominican is not what is said, it is what is done every day.
03:12And when they say the Dominican is brave, it is because of what the Dominican does.
03:17So for me it is a great honor to be able to represent my beautiful land,
03:21and that you are very proud of me.
03:23It was something that I kept very quiet,
03:26because sometimes the things that are said cannot be done,
03:29but I always had that desire that if I won the Oscar one day,
03:33or if I was awarded any recognition,
03:36I knew in my heart that I had obtained it,
03:40because the way I work and operate is very Dominican.
03:45So I thank you for this recognition,
03:48for me it means what you imagine, and thank you very much.