A little girl in Boston went home one day and asked her Nigerian mother if she could change her name to Zoe.
Nobody at school could say Uzoamaka.
Her mother was cooking. She didn't even turn around.
"If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky, Michelangelo, and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka."
That girl kept her name.
Then she went to Hollywood and won three Emmy Awards.
And now the whole world knows exactly how to say Uzoamaka Aduba.
Your name is not a burden. It's a prophecy.
Itâs always the mothers who have to dedicate their lives to caring for these children.
Iâve worked with disabled kids and itâs ALWAYS the mothers. The fathers are never as involved, as attentive, as informed as the mother on the childâs needs. Always the mothers.