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It’s time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.

Viola Davis

I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
VIOLA DAVIS

Ideas Opportunity School
I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
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Ends The End Of The Day World
Each role has its own different challenges.
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Acting Character Self
And that’s what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves – parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it’s pretty spectacular.
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Ifs Opportunity Play
When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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Bigger Passion
I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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Colour Complicated People
If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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Desperate Situations Mother Two
All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn’t have to be huge and humongous.
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Grows
Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.
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Ems Girl Looks
Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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Impart Trying
I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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Gifts And Talents Levels Want
They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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Choices Desperate Situations Two
And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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Womanhood
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
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Dream Mind Thinking
I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it’s possible.
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Actors Ego Vanity
That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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Downtrodden Given Roles

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