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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

Viola Davis

They say the two most important days in a person’s life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.
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Born Important Two
Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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Children Hair Mother
I don’t have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t love me has to say about me.
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Night Up All Night Worry
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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People Thinking Want
Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
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Creativity Real Real Life
I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we’ll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
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Home Not Impressed People
Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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Helping Ordinary People
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
I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
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Giving People Wall
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
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Heal Thinking
Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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Daughter Heart Morning
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
They say the two most important days in a person’s life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.
VIOLA DAVIS

Born Important Two
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
Ultimately, it’s not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people’s expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.
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Believe Sex Thinking
And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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Womanhood

The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

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