00:08Thank you to the Academy, you know, there's one place that all the people with the greatest potential are gathered
00:18one place and
00:21That's the graveyard
00:24People ask me all the time
00:28What kind of stories do you want to tell Viola and I say exhume those bodies
00:36Exhume those stories
00:39The stories of the people who dreamed big and never saw those dreams to fruition
00:46People who fell in love and lost I
00:51Became an artist and thank God I did because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to
00:59live a life
01:08So here's to August Wilson who exhumed and exalted the ordinary people
01:23And to brawn pictures paramount macro
01:27Todd black Molly Allen Scott Rudin for being
01:31the cheerleaders for a movie that is about people and
01:37words and life and forgiveness and grace and
01:41and to
01:42Michael T. Williamson Steven McKinley Henderson Russell Hornsby Giovanna Depple Sanaya Cindy for being
01:50the most wonderful artists I've ever worked with and
01:54Oh captain my captain Denzel Washington
02:09Thank you for putting two entities in the driving seat
02:13August and God and
02:16They served you well and
02:19To Dan and may Alice Davis who were this and are the center of my universe
02:26The people who taught me good or bad how to fail how to love
02:31How to hold an award how to lose
02:35My parents
02:37I'm so thankful that God chose you
02:41Bring me into this world to my sisters my sister Dolores is here who played Jaji and Jaja with me
02:48We were rich white women in the tea party games
02:55Thank you for the imagination and to my husband and my daughter
03:02My heart you and Genesis you teach me every day how to live how to love
03:09I'm so glad that you are the foundation of my life
03:14Thank you to the Academy. Thank you
