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Wendy Williams Says Viola Davis’s Natural Hair Made Her Look Like A Man - The Frisky

Someone come EXTRACT Wendy, please.

smh. if thats the case she’s calling the kettle black. i wish as a black woman she wouldnt tear down other black women, especially over something like natural hair, but what can you do. she’s getting money and anything else she wants

She also said she doesn’t look “professional” with natural hair. Comments like those piss me off and give me a little fear. I’m not changing my hair for anyone just to fit into “corporate America” bullshit.

I always say no one can bring you down like your own. (except white people, they keep us ALL down)

Always thought Wendy Williams was trash. Thanks for confirming. 

Ugh. First her fake tears for Whitney, and now this…Viola looked fab so Wendy take several seats and shut the funk up. I grow so tired of the hate and jealousy in the sisterhood, especially about hair. It’s 2012, the natural vs. whatever else debate should just be put out of its misery. Seriously, do YOU, wear what makes you feel good when you walk out the door, and don’t police someone else’s hair choices. Jeez.   

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Oh god even more Oscar doodles 

brandos:

Viola Davis on the 2012 Oscars Red Carpet in Vera Wang

viola-davis:

brandos:

What I remember as a great performance when I was a kid, it definitely were the tv movies, the miniseries, and the first one: Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Cause it changed my life of course. Because of Cicely Tyson’s performance, you know? Because it was in the midst of sitcoms. It was a sitcom era. And also Roots. Roots changed my life. Even when I was younger I could distinguish from being entertained to having a human experience.

It’s been seventy years since Hattie McDaniel won her Oscar for playing a maid in Gone with the Wind and here we are now with me and Octavia Spencer getting a lot of buzz for playing maids in The Help. That image has become such a source of pain for the African-American community because it represents something demeaning. And for Black people, for African-Americans they never feel like their humanity is explored. That the person is not explored in a way that is specific. In a way that’s messy. And so, all of a sudden I’m playing someone who’s subservient, a maid with a thick dialect and I said “okay this is going to be the downfall of my career”. But at the same time I’ve walked the road and I’m in the front lines and I know what’s out there and in terms of Aibileen going on a journey that’s something that you never get.

And you know what, I’m going to be bold enough and say that you almost never get that as a woman of color.  [x]

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Dream big and dream fierce.

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Viola Davis for Entertainment Weekly

I was eight years old when I decided to be an actor. And I am just so privileged to be gazing on the beautiful face of the woman who inspired me that beautiful day, and that’s Cicely Tyson.

And when I woke up and realized how difficult it was to be an actor, and how the rejection was so high, then another beautiful face graced the screen when I was in college, and that was Meryl, who just …always inspires me.

But there’s so many people involved in The Help, in lieu of mentioning all them, I just have to say that, what is there but a dream? You can’t trade in your dream for another dream. I am so proud to be an actor, and I thank the Screen Actors Guild for this award.

And I have a special, special note to the kids in Central Falls, Rhode Island, in Segue Institute of Learning in Central Falls, Rhode Island: to dream big and dream fierce.

Thank you very much.

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     There is about Viola’s work, and her person, and self-effacing quality that, ironically, has the exact opposite effect of erasing her impact. Weirdly, it amplifies the importance of the women she has chosen to portray and the the woman she is. It’s her seeming reluctance to draw attention to herself that draws us in and pulls us close. It’s her interest in the quiet, the patient ones, and it’s her respect, the great respect she pays to those who bear unbearable burdens without a sound, that makes us lean in and listen and unable to turn away.

     Her modesty is her majesty.

     This is not to say that she is incapable of stylish and show-offy and joyously wild stuff - I have seen that from her in the theater. It’s just to say that her heart and skills are married, and I think that she’s a pure actor, in the way of Vanessa Redgrave. Both share a magic source, a quality that brings more light around the characters they play than the lights regular human beings, an aura almost… It’s like they broke into the electronics truck and brought their own key light, only lit from the inside. What is that? Where does it come from?

     Nothing phony, nothing unfelt, unearned. I know she is a serious actress, she took her training seriously and works hard at her craft. She is a special woman, too. Her humanity marches out in front of her; her kindness, her fierceness, her unwillingness to compromise, her stubbornness makes me love her too. But none of that explains the special empathy she sets up between us and the women she brings us close to, so close we breathe them.

     You don’t watch Viola, you live it with her.
Meryl Streep

“No matter what, people don’t think of me for glamorous parts. I’ll go to an audition or a meeting in a pretty dress, and they still think of me as depressed or embattled. Hopefully, that will change.”
Viola Davis

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