VIOLA DAVIS BECOMES THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO WIN THE ACTING TRIPLE CROWN: TONY, EMMY, AND NOW OSCAR

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As expected, Viola Davis won the best supporting actress Oscar for her role in “Fences.” As soon as she took the stage, everyone knew we were in for a heck of a speech.

• “You know, there is one place that all the people with the greatest potential are gathered and that’s the graveyard,” a teary-eyed Davis began.

• “People ask me all the time — what kind of stories do you want to tell, Viola? And I say exhume those bodies. Exhume those stories — the stories of the people who dreamed big and never saw those dreams to fruition, people who fell in love and lost.”

• “I became an artist and thank God I did,” she continued “because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life.”

WASHINGTON POST

Read More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/02/26/viola-davis-won-an-oscar-and-gave-an-amazing-speech-no-one-is-surprised/?utm_term=.35b15fda3906 

LISTEN TO HER SPEECH HERE

 (Whoopi has all three as well. But her Tony was for producing a musical, not acting in a musical)