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.
VIOLA DAVISWomanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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[I listen to] “Uptown Funk”, Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress – I listen to that.
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I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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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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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.
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It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
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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.
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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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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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