00:05in my mind I see a line and over that line I see green fields and lovely flowers and
00:17beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line but I can't seem to get
00:26their know-how I can't seem to get over that line that was Harriet Tubman in the 1800s and let
00:35me tell
00:36you something the only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity
00:51you cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there so here's to all the writers the awesome
01:06people that are Ben Sherwood Paul Lee Peter Nowak Shonda Rhimes people who have redefined what it
01:18means to be beautiful to be sexy to be a leading woman to be black and to the Taraji P
01:27Henson's the
01:28Kerry Washington's the Halle Berry's the Nicole Bahari's the Megan Goods to Gabrielle Union thank
01:38you for taking us over that line thank you for the Television Academy thank you
