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She always wanted her children to experience new things, so she moved the family to Mexico for 2 years despite the fact that none of them spoke Spanish or knew anyone there.\nDebbie was determined to be a dancer from a very young age, and her parents enrolled her in dance classes when she was five years old. She was an A grade student her whole life and excelled at high school. At the age of 12, she auditioned for the Houston Ballet School, where her performance was much appreciated \u2013 yet, she was denied admission on racial grounds. She was secretly admitted by a Russian instructor who was impressed with her skills, and later accepted as the only black student there because of her sheer talent. Racial discrimination hampered her career several times, including being rejected admission at the North Carolina School of Arts.\nDisappointed by this state of affairs, Debbie enrolled at Howard University to study drama, from where she graduated with honors in 1971. 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