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Reality is merely an illusion. Albeit, a very persistent one. -Albert Einstein

We will see where this leads.

“ I can go into an audition with my makeup and my hair and my lashes and come out with these roles…. Which goes into the area of perception, and how people perceive black women of a certain hue, and when I say certain hue, I mean black women who are darker than a paper bag. And I’m a dark-skinned black woman who is 46 years old. And I don’t know about you, but when I go to see movies, I don’t see a lot of women like me in glamorous roles. Not in any mainstream movies, and inevitably when I say that people mention one person — but usually just one. I don’t see a lot of narratives written … where a woman who looks like me gets to be beautiful and sexualized and upwardly mobile, middle-class, funny, quirky. They’re very seldom written. ”
by Viola Davis on how people perceive her. (via nprfreshair)

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    The other side of this is that if people DO write sexualized roles for women of her hue, there will be a lot of...
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    the upwardly mobile part, especially.
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