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Viola Davis Quote: “Taking off the wig in HTGAWM was my duty to honor Black women by not showing an image that is palatable to the oppressor, to people who have tarnished, punished the image of Black womanhood for so long. It said all of who we are is beautiful. Even our imperfections.”

101. “Taking off the wig in HTGAWM was my duty to honor Black women by not showing an image that is palatable to the oppressor, to people who have tarnished, punished the image of Black womanhood for so long. It said all of who we are is beautiful. Even our imperfections.”

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Viola Davis Quote: “If I created a fable of my life, a fantasy, I see myself finally meeting God, gushing, crying, thanking the Almighty for the accolades, a fabulous husband, beautiful daughter, my journey from nothing to Hollywood, awards, travel. I can clearly see the Lord’s face, staring at me, taking me in and saying, ‘You never thanked me for creating you as YOU.”

102. “If I created a fable of my life, a fantasy, I see myself finally meeting God, gushing, crying, thanking the Almighty for the accolades, a fabulous husband, beautiful daughter, my journey from nothing to Hollywood, awards, travel. I can clearly see the Lord’s face, staring at me, taking me in and saying, ‘You never thanked me for creating you as YOU.”

— Viola Davis

Viola Davis Quote: “Being with that group of women who so easily gave up their vanity and just went for it was a huge learning curve for me.”

103. “Being with that group of women who so easily gave up their vanity and just went for it was a huge learning curve for me.”

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Viola Davis Quote: “They have the power of giving you joy and perspective in hard times. Or, they can strangle you. Define you in a way that’s based more in other people’s tucked-up perceptions than truth.”

104. “They have the power of giving you joy and perspective in hard times. Or, they can strangle you. Define you in a way that’s based more in other people’s tucked-up perceptions than truth.”

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Viola Davis Quote: “It is a widely held belief that dark-skinned women just don’t do it for a lot of Black men. It’s a mentality rooted in both racism and misogyny, that you have no value as a woman if you do not turn them on, if you are not desirable to them. It’s ingrained thinking, dictated by oppression.”

105. “It is a widely held belief that dark-skinned women just don’t do it for a lot of Black men. It’s a mentality rooted in both racism and misogyny, that you have no value as a woman if you do not turn them on, if you are not desirable to them. It’s ingrained thinking, dictated by oppression.”

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Viola Davis Quote: “The obstacle blocking me was a four-hundred-year-old racist system of oppression and my own feeling of utter aloneness.”

106. “The obstacle blocking me was a four-hundred-year-old racist system of oppression and my own feeling of utter aloneness.”

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Viola Davis Quote: “It is a powerful memory because it was the first time my spirit and heart were broken.”

107. “It is a powerful memory because it was the first time my spirit and heart were broken.”

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Viola Davis Quote: “The TV and film business is saturated with people who think they’re writing something human when it’s really a gimmick.”

108. “The TV and film business is saturated with people who think they’re writing something human when it’s really a gimmick.”

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Viola Davis Quote: “I was sold lies for two years and the worst part is that I believed it because I couldn’t combat it with anything else.”

109. “I was sold lies for two years and the worst part is that I believed it because I couldn’t combat it with anything else.”

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Viola Davis Quote: “When I look back at what I’ve seen, my only thoughts are that it’s amazing how much a human body can endure.”

110. “When I look back at what I’ve seen, my only thoughts are that it’s amazing how much a human body can endure.”

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Viola Davis Quote: “Silly of me to not know that I am the love of my life.”

111. “Silly of me to not know that I am the love of my life.”

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Viola Davis Quote: “This was genius. This was art! Expression that is born out of the necessity of ritual to navigate life.”

112. “This was genius. This was art! Expression that is born out of the necessity of ritual to navigate life.”

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Viola Davis Quote: “Abuse elicits so many memories of trauma that embed themselves into behavior that is hard to shake. It could be something that happened forty years ago, but it remains alive, present.”

113. “Abuse elicits so many memories of trauma that embed themselves into behavior that is hard to shake. It could be something that happened forty years ago, but it remains alive, present.”

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Viola Davis Quote: “I’m no longer ashamed of me. I own everything that has ever happened to me. The parts that were a source of shame are actually my warrior fuel.”

114. “I’m no longer ashamed of me. I own everything that has ever happened to me. The parts that were a source of shame are actually my warrior fuel.”

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Viola Davis Quote: “For every one actor who makes it to fame there are fifty thousand more who did exactly the same things, yet didn’t make it.”

115. “For every one actor who makes it to fame there are fifty thousand more who did exactly the same things, yet didn’t make it.”

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Viola Davis Quote: “The invisibility of the one-two punch that is Blackness and poverty is brutal. Mix that with being hungry all the damn time and it becomes combustible.”

116. “The invisibility of the one-two punch that is Blackness and poverty is brutal. Mix that with being hungry all the damn time and it becomes combustible.”

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Viola Davis Quote: “The journey of a hero I learned from writer Joseph Campbell, that a hero is someone born into a world where they don’t fit in, they are then summoned on a call to an adventure that they are reluctant to take. What is the adventure? A revolutionary transformation of self the final goal is to find the elixir, the magic potion – that is the answer to unlocking her. Then she comes home to this ordinary life transformed and shares her story of survival with others.”

117. “The journey of a hero I learned from writer Joseph Campbell, that a hero is someone born into a world where they don’t fit in, they are then summoned on a call to an adventure that they are reluctant to take. What is the adventure? A revolutionary transformation of self the final goal is to find the elixir, the magic potion – that is the answer to unlocking her. Then she comes home to this ordinary life transformed and shares her story of survival with others.”

— Viola Davis

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