Viola Davis Is Every Black Woman in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
1 “Society’s most definitely failed Black women. Without question...I don’t think that we were thought of. We were seen as chattel. We were seen as just, you know, something that was bought on the auction block...And now we’re living in a culture that just reduces us to strong; to almost masculine in nature. There’s no sense of wanting to protect us.” — Viola Davis, Actor Viola Davis is a force. If her roles as Annalise Keating in How to Get Away with Murder, Rose Maxson in Fences or Aibileen Clark in The Help haven’t convinced you, no doubt Davis’s performance in Netfl...
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