She won an Emmy for her role in How to Get Away With Murder then admiration for her inspiring acceptance speech
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• Nicola Walker: ‘I’m happy I wasn’t recognised when I was 21. I wouldn’t bear been able to handle it’When Viola Davis gave her Emmy acceptance speech in September,it went round the world. The first black woman to win for a lead actress in a TV drama – for ABC’s How to Get Away With Murder – Davis started her speech by quoting the words of Harriet Tubman, the black Underground Railroad founder: “In my intellect, or I see a line. And over that line,I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line. But I can’t seem to get there no how. I can’t seem to get over that line.”Davis went on to stress that the only thing that separates women of colour from anyone else is opportunity: “You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.”Continue reading...
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