Finding Me: The Grammy-winning memoir

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She highlights the brutal racism she had to deal with as a child, the abuse she faced from family members, what it was like to grow up in poverty, and her deep desire to make something more out of her life. Viola could have done well in many areas, but the acting bug bit her when she saw Cicely Tyson in 'The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Our latest EGOT legend douses us all with the ice cold truth: her innate talent and sheer grit got her to the threshold but it was a healthy dose of luck that nudged doors open; luck that served as the unreliable substitute to the universal key that is whiteness. Her childhood was riddled with trauma: she shares devastating stories of enduring racism, constant hunger, rampant sexual assault by neighborhood men, and constantly reeking because her family couldn’t afford to do laundry. Every painful memory, every mentor, every friend and foe served as a chisel, a leap pad that has shaped “ME!

She received critical acclaim, with film critic Eric Kohn of IndieWire writing, that the film "largely belongs to Davis.Davis appeared uncredited as Amanda Waller in two episodes, " A Whole New Whirled" and " It's Cow or Never", in season 1 of the show Peacemaker, a spin-off of The Suicide Squad, and in the film, Black Adam. Throughout the memoir, she recounts specific scenes, conversations, and events so the book felt immersive rather than boring. This memoir is like a conversation with Viola Davis, it doesn't have any real structure and I didn't feel like I learned anything inspiring. From the extreme poverty, the intense physical and sexual abuse, and all the way to Hollywood, Viola paints a perfect image to show you and let you understand her life.

She wants you to understand that even winning this fight is not enough, because what matters most is coming to terms with all you’ve been through to experience true freedom.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.

Davis is also the founder and CEO of JuVee Productions, an artist driven production company that develops and produces independent film, theater, television, and digital content.

In 2011, Davis donated funds to her hometown public library in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to assist in preventing its closure due to a lack of city funding. we were the baton they were passing as they were sinking into the quicksand of racism, poverty, Jim Crow, segregation, injustice, family trauma, and dysfunction. There was also conversation about the treatment of theater versus film which I found to be extremely intriguing.

Truly, Madly, Intimately" Archived August 28, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, American Theatre magazine, September 2004. I also love her story about her hubby, chiiiiiiile— AINT NOTHING LIKE A SOUTHERN MAN… I too, tend to lean towards them as well because they simply understand so much!The older children were raised by their grandparents until Mae Alice could no longer stand to hear stories of them being beaten in school, and sent for them to come to Rhode Island. 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. She is the winner of an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and two Tony Awards, and in 2021 she won a Screen Actors Guild award for her role in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’. While Anita was the fashionista fighter who was as loved and adored as she was feared, I was none of those things.