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  • 2/21/2025
Marla Gibbs has always been on the right side of history—from her role as Florence Johnston on the groundbreaking sitcom The ­Jeffersons to advocating for a Black woman to hold the highest office in the nation one day.
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00:00As usual, myself adjusting to whatever is expected of you.
00:25No matter what we look like, we're still one.
00:30We're interchangeable.
00:31We don't look alike, but we are alike.
00:35And once we begin to understand that we're all one and we care about each other, we'll
00:40be doing what God wants us to do.
00:46That's phenomenal.
00:47I can't believe it.

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