Finding Me: The Grammy-winning memoir

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A fervent rejection of the one-dimensional portraits Hollywood paints of black people and their experiences. She explores several relationships she has involving her family and how those relationships have changed and developed over the years and I just think she did a wonderful job detailing her childhood and how it has affected her later into her career. I see people-the way they walk, talk, laugh, and grieve, and their silence-in a way that is hyperfocused because of my past. When Viola was very small, the Davis's and their three youngest children moved to Central Falls, Rhode Island, where Dan Davis worked as a horse groomer at racetracks.

Viola Davis is very open with her mental health journey and the therapy she has worked through to deal with past traumas. this was also my first audiobook, and i couldn’t have picked a better one to start with because viola’s performance was truly incredible. Viola Davis walking us through her most difficult parts of her life and the most rewarding moments was such a delight to listen to!

I felt that so intensely because my 3rd grade teacher said that Black people couldn't be doctors or lawyers, so we should focus on trades. The Davis family also lived in grinding poverty: they often went hungry; didn't have coins for the laundromat; lacked heat and telephone service; and had rats all over the apartment.

There are conversations related to misogyny, racism, and colorism; things that I knew existed in Hollywood, but were still heartbreaking to hear via Davis' experiences. In the course of playing Annalise, I understood that I was no longer and never was that ugly Black nigga. I see people—the way they walk, talk, laugh, and grieve, and their silence—in a way that is hyperfocused because of my past. Overall, Viola is such a strong woman, but she also shares her struggles and vulnerabilities, and how she made it to this point of stability, peace and understanding.So finding out she would be gifting us with a deep memoir of her childhood to her present day life was amazing. 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. The title to be read and discussed is sign-posted and on sale for the whole of the previous month (with a discount for those who make it known they intend to come) and everybody is welcome, whether first-timer, part-timer or regular-timer.