Finding Me: The Grammy-winning memoir

Product Information

On January 20, 2020, Davis was awarded an honorary doctoral degree in fine arts from Indiana University. Overall, this was a beautiful, heart-wrenching book and I'm so glad that Viola Davis felt comfortable enough to share her story: the good, the bad, and the ugly. The racial segregation and black codes caused by these laws made it difficult for African Americans to access public transportation, schools, cast votes, and even gain economic independence. Deeply personal, brutally honest, and riveting, Finding Me is a timeless and spellbinding memoir that will capture hearts and minds around the globe. But he didn’t want to be associated with African Americans, a mindset I later learned was very common among Cape Verdeans in Central Falls.

She also talks about her personal life, sharing health challenges, meeting her husband, and adopting her daughter.Viola provides the Foreward and listening to her voice and the impact on Viola at 7 years old when she saw Cicely Tyson on television is a powerful testimonial about role models and the need to ensure diversity in arts, entertainment and all industries.

But when she saw Cecily Tyson on TV, she was inspired to take up acting, first succeeding in small sketches at school and later earning a college scholarship. She received critical acclaim, with film critic Eric Kohn of IndieWire writing, that the film "largely belongs to Davis. Throughout the early 2000s Davis appeared in numerous films, including Soderbergh's Solaris and Traffic, as well as George Clooney's Syriana (2005), which Soderbergh produced. We aim to provide you with hundreds of thousands of e-books for studying, working, and self-development.

She also goes into how she became an actress and all of the hurdles she had to face as a dark skinned, black woman that’s not considered either beautiful, petite or fragile. Viola also details the events of her rise to where she is now and like her childhood, it is extremely upsetting but also very inspiring. Viola Davis is one of the best actors of this generation and has won multiple awards in acting, like Oscar, Emmy, and Tony. Viola had me ‘hanging-by-a-tread’ when she took a 4 hour train ride — to audition - to get into Juilliard …. was the word 'eradicate', 'get rid of' - not by thirty-percent not by twenty-percent not by fifty-percent, but to do away [with it].