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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Dream
Destiny
Please
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.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Two
Important
Born
When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Passion
Bigger
Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Healthy
GoodHealth
Dose
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.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Ideas
Womanhood
When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
People
Praying
PeopleInYourLife
You can't be hesitant about who you are.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Hesitant
WhoYouAre
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
Viola Davis
Night
Worry
UpAllNight
I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Looks
Want
Fabulous
I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Want
Limits
There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We deprive ourselves of things, we use it to destroy each other, we'll look at a child and judge a mother and her sense of motherhood by the way the child's hair looks. I am not going to traumatize my child about her hair. I want her to love her hair.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Mother
Children
Hair
Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Winning
Opportunity
Color
All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
People
Needs
Tiny
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Struggle
Artist
Feelings
As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Artist
Together
Mixtures
You have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it. When you're really passionate, you're going to grab hold of every rope you see, and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out. And that's the way I've felt in my life.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
DesperateSituations
Two
Choices
I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded. I’m weak at times. I’m sensual. I’m not overtly sexual. I am so many things in so many ways and I will never see myself on screen. And the reason I will never see myself up on screen is because that does not translate with being black.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Strong
Fall
Dark
I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Inspire
Shapes
Way
Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Real
Creativity
RealLife
At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
TheEndOfTheDay
World
Ends
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