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More Quotes by Viola Davis
I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
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.
We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.
Relationships change us and make us grow.
