Every painful memory, every mentor, every friend and foe served as a chisel, a leap pad that has shaped “ME!

I was fighting an ideology about what an actor was, and it was all born in the depth of white superiority.Viola reading it to me (go with the audio, please, please) was an incredibly personal and intimate feeling. Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here.

Viola feared an entertainment career would not help her support herself, and she didn't want to live in poverty like her parents. A fervent rejection of the one-dimensional portraits Hollywood paints of black people and their experiences. I don't usually read non-fiction books, even less if they're biographies, but my amazing best friend and her flawless taste in books thought this was the perfect Christmas gift for me, and it truly was. She tells her extraordinary journey filled with poverty, love, hatred, racism, and achievements in her life in this book.I can say so much about how our life events sorta overlap but this is her story so I will leave it there. IN MY BOOK, YOU WILL MEET a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever. Finding Me is the deeply personal, brutally honest account of Viola's inspiring life, from her coming of age in Rhode Island to her present-day career. I’m baffled at just how powerful — brutal - heart wrenching- heartbreaking - heart stopping - and deeply, profoundly ‘soul’-generous Viola Davis is…. Nothing I experienced can even glimpse a moment in the Davis family life of poverty so extreme that it is almost unfathomable, of abuse, fear, guilt, and things I can't even put words to.