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Bonn, Tess (March 6, 2017). "See Viola Davis' Powerful Harvard Award Acceptance Speech". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on August 22, 2023 . Retrieved March 4, 2018. Tate Taylor Reunites With 'The Help's' Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer On James Brown Pic". Deadline. September 30, 2013. Archived from the original on October 24, 2013 . Retrieved October 23, 2013. Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones – Quincy Jones, Jeffrey S. Thomas, Steven Strassman (engineers), and Elisa Shokoff (producer) (2001) Aware of Ms. Davis’s childhood prior to this book see her relationship to those events in a new light. One that split the darkness of mine. After getting past the early(nightmare) childhood years —-Viola began her career (so damn interesting of even how she got from A to B), in Central Falls, Rhode Island….

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I am a dark-skinned woman. Culturally, there is a spoken and unspoken narrative rooted in Jim Crow. It tells us that dark-skinned women are simply not desirable. All the attributes that are attached to being a woman-desirable, vulnerable, needing to be rescued-don't apply to us. In the past, we've been used as chattel, fodder for inhumane experimentation, and it has evolved into invisibility."

In spite of all this, Viola was a good student. She recalls, "School was our salvation. We coped by excelling academically." Viola could have done well in many areas, but the acting bug bit her when she saw Cicely Tyson in 'The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman." Viola writes, "I wanted to be a great actor like Miss Tyson....Then Ron Stetson, a young actor and coach, came into my life when I was fourteen." Stetson was Viola's acting coach in the federally funded Upward Bound program. Ron taught his students to act and gave them a safe space to share their feelings. Viola notes, "The emotional release acting allowed gave me great joy." I was being catapulted into adulthood. Coming from a childhood of trauma, I needed a radical transformation. I hadn’t been taught how to navigate the world. I hadn’t been taught what could help me grow or live better. I’d been taught to run from the world. I’d been taught how to hide and fight. I hadn’t been taught how to love and be still.” My only regret- I have from listening to Viola read ‘this/her’ memoir so brilliantly—is that I wish I had been part of a small book group -having ongoing discussions—chapter by chapter. Muhammad, Latifah (January 28, 2018). " 'Two Sides': Viola Davis Debuts Documentary Series On Police Brutality". Vibe. Archived from the original on August 22, 2023 . Retrieved March 4, 2018.Emmy Awards 2015: The complete winners list". CNN. September 21, 2015. Archived from the original on September 22, 2015. And yes, it was and still is a plantation," Davis writes."Not a farm. Drive down the long, dusty road leading into the 160 or so acres and you’ll come to the big, white, beautiful plantation home. Drive a little fartherand there’s the tiny, one-room church. An even farther venture will deliver you to the doorsteps of the sharecroppers’ houses, outhouses, outdoor showers, and a well.My maternal grandparents, Mozell and Henry Logan, like the other sharecroppers, had a one-room house with a big fireplace." Ms. Davis didn’t immediately understand the question. When Mr. Smith explained what he meant she hit a revelation. This memoir will make you emotional after reading the author's extraordinary life journey. If you are facing many obstacles in your life now and want to read a newly published inspirational book, this book will be a great choice. Johnson, Zach (July 29, 2015). "Viola Davis Poses With Daughter Genesis Tennon for AARP the Magazine and Reflects on Her Life Before Turning 50". E!. Archived from the original on September 20, 2015 . Retrieved September 21, 2015.

I was always on the outside of Juilliard because I wasn’t on the inside of me. I was fighting an ideology about what an actor was, and it was all born in the depth of white superiority.”In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox – Carol Burnett (2016) SAG Awards 2012: Complete list of winners". New York Daily News. Associated Press. January 30, 2012. Archived from the original on February 1, 2012. George was and is the nicest human being,” Davis writes. The two had starred together in the 2002 film “Solaris”; later, at the premiere of her film “Far From Heaven,” she mentioned to Clooney that she and her partner Julius Tennon had just been married.