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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.

Viola Davis

Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
VIOLA DAVIS

Ideas Womanhood
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
People are just not impressed by me at home.
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Capacity To Love Hate Humanity
They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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Choices Desperate Situations Two
I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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Ideas Opportunity School
Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person’s capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
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Awards Important Opportunity
I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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Hair Hilarious Inspiring
Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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Children Hair Mother
Tyler Perry’s ‘Madea Goes to Jail!’ Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I’ve ever done in my career, that’s the only thing that’s perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that’s done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes!
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School Sexy Thinking
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 love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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Mistake Opportunity Thinking
I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don’t think it’s honest.
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Challenges Different Roles
At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
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Artist Mixtures Together
And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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Womanhood
When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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People People In Your Life Praying
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

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