Viola Davis has won her fifth Screen Actors Guild Award.
Davis also paid special honor to playwright August Wilson, who wroteFencesin 1983.
They say maybe all one can hope for is the right regrets.
What August did so beautifully is he honored the average man.
Who happened to be a man of color, Davis said.
We deserve to be in the canon, in the center of any narrative thats written out there.
And thats what August did.
He elevated my father, my mother, uncles, who had 8th and 5th-grade educations.
He just encapsulated them in history.
So thank you, August.
(She also won as part of the ensemble forThe Help.)
Theyre not there because of the color of their skin.
They put in the work.
So the answer to that is no, and you know, my response from here on out…
I always use the three words.
Feb. 26 is going to come, and now what?
Is it just going to be a trend to talk about inclusion?
And Id rather say inclusion than diversity.
Thats where were at.
Were not theBrady Bunchanymore.
WereFresh Off the Boat.
Were a hodgepodge of cultures and races and sexes and sexualities.
