Friday, February 24, 2012

Viola Davis' NAACP Image Award Acceptance: 'You Have A Story To Tell'



"You know, man gives awards but God gives rewards. And the reward of my life is that when I decided to become an artist, I wanted to tell the truth. Not to revise it, not to erase it but to tell the truth. My life is a culmination of bad memories, uglyness, sweetness, beauty... but it makes me fully human.
 And I feel like if you occupy this life for any given time, 
if you are breathing, if you are living, then you have a story to tell."






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