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ZOZIBINI TUNZI: If I'm
scared to use my voice,

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then I'm depriving myself.

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And I'm kind of
depriving the young women

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and young girls who follow me.

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Hey, I'm Miss Universe 2019.

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And I am here with In the Know.

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The minute I said I was
entering a beauty pageant,

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they said, OK, are you
going to put on a weave?

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Am I going to grow my hair out?

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Am I going to put on
a wig on top of it?

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Because I think that's
just how pageant standards

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have been in their minds.

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Which made me think, why would
people ask me this question?

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Because society has
deemed beauty to not look

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the way that I look.

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And I wanted to change that.

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Growing up in a world
that lacked inclusion

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and representation, looking at
movies, opening up a magazine,

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and not seeing a woman
who looks like myself,

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that does a lot to the mind.

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Because it makes
you feel like you're

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not represented in the world.

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It means you don't
really matter.

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So I've had a weave before.

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I've had braids before.

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And I have had every
kind of hairstyle

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that you can ever imagine.

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And I cut my hair about two
years ago, I think almost about

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to be three years now.

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It did come with a lot of
fears when I wanted to cut.

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Because I was so scared, I would
look at myself in the mirror,

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and not feel beautiful anymore.

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And so because I was on the Miss
Universe stage, a stage that

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is considered to have the most
beautiful women in the world,

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and the most intelligent
women in the world

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according to my
opinion, and I was like,

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beauty can be the way that
I'm looking right now.

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So why would I change
myself just because now I'm

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going to a platform
where beauty is

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not considered to be this way?

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I'm going to tell you that
I look the way that I look.

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And you look like me.

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And that means that you matter.

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So I think by being fierce and
standing for everything that I

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believe in, and not allowing
the world to shut me down,

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or to shut me up from
speaking on important things,

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I'm hoping that
will give someone

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the permission to want to
do the same thing, too,

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for themselves.

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It's so important as a young
person to realize your worth,

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and to realize that you have
so much space to take up

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in the world, and
that you need to learn

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to find what it is that
you're passionate about,

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and place yourself.

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When you walk into a room, don't
be scared to express yourself,

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and to show people how you
feel, and to teach them things,

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and to learn from them, as well.

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Because they are the
future of this world.

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And it's so important
for them to insert

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themselves in society.

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Find that space and occupy it.

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