00:00Wow, we are here, our second year in a row,
00:04recognizing and celebrating our Latino leaders.
00:07And they're reshaping America.
00:09Audiences are frustrated
00:11with the lack of originality in Hollywood.
00:13They're desperate for novelty,
00:15for new, exciting ideas, authentic storytelling.
00:18And I think this is where we,
00:20as an underrepresented community, can really step in.
00:23We know our stories are not risks.
00:26This oversaturation in the entertainment industry,
00:29the lack of originality everyone's so upset about,
00:32it's actually an exciting opportunity for us.
00:36What an amazing time to have a unique perspective.
00:39We have the chance to tell stories
00:41that haven't been told yet,
00:42to hire talented artists that haven't been discovered yet,
00:45and to help bridge the gap of the human experience.
00:49We shouldn't stop until everybody in this country,
00:51not only Latinos, until everyone in the country
00:54knows that Hispanics are positive contributors
00:57to the country, that we are the economic driving force
01:00of America, and I think that we should all join forces
01:03to change the perception of Latinos,
01:05because perception is reality.
01:08And we need to change the reality to reflect what we are.
01:10Within you, working its way through your veins,
01:14and in your DNA, is the power of a people
01:18who do not just survive, but thrive.
01:23Who do not stop, only know how to press on.
01:29Who only fall in order to get stronger by getting back up.
01:36Who achieve greatness, not despite any obstacles,
01:39but because those obstacles inspired us to conquer them.
01:45And so your job, future generations,
01:50is to take our dreams, build on them,
01:56make more love, make bigger dreams,
02:01so that you can inspire a new generation to do the same.
02:05Latinos sometimes think they won't succeed,
02:08especially in a leadership position.
02:11They think if they're too authentic,
02:13if they're too passionate, I hear that a lot, by the way.
02:17Oh, I have to tone down my passion.
02:20I don't wanna be too Latino.
02:24And I have really now started to make it
02:29a real part of my journey to help those young Latinos
02:33erase that from their mind.
02:37I believe that authenticity is our superpower,
02:41and that we cannot succeed without this superpower.
02:45I believe my superpower is my passion.
02:49I don't wanna tone it down.
02:51My passion is how I live my life.
02:54Time Magazine has always meant a lot to me.
02:57And when I think about when I was starting out,
03:00I think you have to be really poor,
03:03because I was a huge fan of Eddie Murphy's,
03:05and in the early 80s, he was on the cover of Time.
03:09And I didn't steal the magazine,
03:11I went and made a Xerox copy.
03:15Of the article, and then I stapled it together.
03:18And that was my Time Magazine at that time.
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