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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.
Viola Davis
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Viola Davis
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: August 11
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In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can't seem to get there no how. I can't seem to get over that line.
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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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It's not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It's just a cultural understanding that you're just not a part of the equation when it comes to sexuality and I think that people mistake your lack of opportunity with the level of your talent.
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And classically not beautiful is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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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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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.
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