A movie about Viola Davis because her life deserves to be known
āThe only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten, I have this expression on my face ā itās not a smile, itās not a frown. I swear to you, thatās the girl who wakes up in the morning and who looks around her house and her life saying, āI cannot believe how God has blessed me.ā āĀ
āI would jump in trash bins with maggots looking for food, and I would steal from the corner store because I was hungry, I never had any kids come to my house because my house was a condemned building, it was boarded up, it was infested with rats. I was one of those kids who were poor and knew it.āĀ
āI was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. We had nothing, I cannot believe my life, I just canāt, Iām so blessed. I would jump in trash bins with maggots looking for food, and I would steal from the corner store because I was hungry, I never had any kids come to my house because my house was a condemned building, it was boarded up, it was infested with rats. I was one of those kids who were poor and knew it.ā
āIt became a motivation as opposed to something else ā the thing about poverty is that it starts affecting your mind and your spirit because people donāt see you, I chose from a very young age that I didnāt want that for my life. And it very much has helped me appreciate and value the things that are in my life now because I never had it. A yard, a house, great plumbing, a full refrigerator, things that people take for granted, I donāt.ā
āI first envisioned myself as an actor after I watched Cicely Tyson in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman when I was a child.ā
āIt wasnāt until then that I had a visual manifestation of the target I wanted to hit, It also gave me hope for the future and a different life for myself, she helped me have a very specific drive of how I was going to crawl, walk, run from that environment.ā
āI became an artist, and thank God I did, because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life,āĀ
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