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More Quotes by Viola Davis
We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
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.
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it's possible.
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.
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.
Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
