Reporting live from ’s #BlackWomenInHollywood luncheon! It begins with presenting the award for her “sister” so basically I found Wakanda and it’s lit.
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Danai starts her speech by describing when she was 9 and longtime Essence editor Susan L. Taylor came to her hometown and told her she was beautiful...and it made her consider the fact, “that it might just be true” #BlackWomenInHollywood
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“People are in the place of reclaiming. We are recapturing something that’s been taken from us...We have to help the youth know that there is something inside of them that the world needs.”
— on the best part of the response #blackpanther received.
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“The harvest is now. We lack nothing. We are here and we are ready to determine our OWN destiny.”
And then Danai ended her speech with commanding us ONWARD in Wakandan like she would the Dora Milaje and so I am now inconsolable. #BlackWomeninHollywood
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The next honoree is who accepted her award doing the nae nae which is why we love her. presented her award. #BlackWomenInHollywood
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“I was here last year back in the corner like ‘ima do that one day’ and now here I am!” — #BlackWomenInHollywood
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Tiffany Haddish: Coming from the foster care system... my upbringing allows me to relate to everybody in any room. I realized no matter where I am in the world we all have problems we all need love and we all want to be happy. #BlackWomenInHollywood
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“I curse every single one of y’all with happiness. I hope every single one of y’all become so happy you spread it.” #BlackWomenInHollywood
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“I thought I was gonna come up here and read a poem or something but...”
Lmao there is no one else like y’all. But we knew this already. #BlackWomenInHollywood
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“I loved a genre that never loved me back.” — on why she’s so happy to have directed a sci-if film, Wrinkle In Time, starring a black girl.
Now Chloe x Halle are performing the song “Warrior” from the film. #BlackWomenInHollywood
“Tessa’s on screen work is impressive... but her work off screen is even more impressive....She was in those [#TimesUp] rooms fighting on our behalf to make sure our voices weren’t erased.” — honoring #BlackWomeninHollywood
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“We as black women have been too invisible... and when one succeeds she is seen as the exception... except with you, .” — #BlackWomenInHollywood
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“I love all of you... you me love me.” — to all the black women in the room ❤️ #BlackWomenInHollywood
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“I feel like I don’t have to reclaim my time here... y’all are gonna just give me my time.” — Honoree (yes that’s Angela Bassett in all white) #BlackWomeInHollywood
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“Thank you A Different World for teaching me how to dream...”
— before breaking down some of the show’s impactful episodes then adding, “and for making me realize I was a little lesbian in training because I wanted Whitley Gilbert.” #BlackWomenInHollywood
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“It’s not just my job to make art... but to be a shining light for all the little lesbians in training. To care about them more than my bank account.” —
WHEW. #BlackWomenInHollywood
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