00:00Thank you SAG AFTRA. You know I could do a laundry list of all the people to
00:06thank you know everyone involved in the film that Scott Rudin, Molly Allen, Todd
00:12Black, Braun, Macro, Paramount, Denzel, what can I say? A friend and a fan, what
00:19can I say? And Michael T, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Russell Hornsby,
00:24Giovanna Depos and I, Sydney, my love of my life, my husband Julius, my daughter
00:31Genesis, and August Wilson. You know they say that maybe all one can hope for is
00:43the right regrets and what August did so beautifully is he honored the average
00:49man who happened to be a man of color and sometimes we don't have to shape the
00:57world and move the world and create anything that is going to be in a
01:01history book. The fact that we breathed and live a life and was a God to our
01:09children. Just that means that we have a story and it deserves to be told. We
01:16deserve to be in the canon of any in the center of any narrative that's written
01:22out there and that's what August did. He elevated my father, my mother, my uncles
01:27who had eighth and fifth grade educations and he just encapsulated them in history.
01:34So thank you, August. Thank you for, thank you.
