Finding Me

While I loved Viola before finding this book, I am completely in awe of her now! So powerful and heartfelt - I am amazed at her strength and so incredibly saddened by all that she had to go through growing up - all because of the color of her skin. I literally can not even repeat the disgusting and ugly words repeatedly thrown at her... My heart broke, yet I was lifted up by her powerful, positive, and undying determination to go on. Hearing the sad truths about what people of color have to go through in this business – how black women typically get the “best friend role” but never the lead was eye-opening and heartbreaking. Between learning this and hearing how powerful her visit to Africa was for her, it made me cry tears of absolute joy seeing her in her new LEADING ROLE of The Woman King! SO powerful! I can only imagine how incredibly rewarding that was for her, and I am SO beyond happy to see it happen for this amazingly strong, powerful, gorgeous woman.