Summary of Finding Me A Memoir By Viola Davis

By Willie M. Joseph

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She shares her journey from a crumbling apartment in Rhode Island to New York City and beyond. Author: "I wrote this for anyone running through life untethered, desperate and clawing their way through murky memories".

• Language: English
• Publisher: Willie M. Joseph
• Release date: Jul 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201997748

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Running

Cocksucker motherfucker was my favorite expression and at eight years old, I used it defiantly. I'll get my sister Anita to beat yo' ass, I'd say with confidence. When I won spelling contests, I would flaunt my gold star to everyone I saw. Every day it was the same madness. The same trauma.

Me, taking off like Wilma Rudolph or Flo-Jo, and them tight on my heels. They threw rocks, bricks, tree branches, batteries, pine cones, and anything else their devious eyes spied. She's ugly! Black fucking nigger, he said. I don't know why you're saying that to me, I pleaded to the ringleader, the Portuguese boy.

You're Black, too!. I yelled it this time, calling him by name. Viola Davis had an aha moment on the set of Suicide Squad. After years of being chased by boys, she was given a crochet needle and told to keep it in my pocket. Oprah Winfrey asked Viola Davis who she was, and she blurted out: I'm the little girl who would run after school every day in third grade because these boys hated me because I was. . . not pretty.

She later realized her journey was about healing that eight-year-old girl. Can you hug her? Can you let her hug YOU? a therapist asked. Can you allow her be excited about the fifty-three-year-old she is going to become?.

A hero is someone born into a world where they don't fit in, summoned on a call to adventure. It was bigger than my successes. Bigger than expectations from the world. It was a full embracing of what God made me to be. Even the parts that had cracks and where the molding wasn't quite right.

I saw that young girl so clearly that day. In the words of Joseph Campbell, The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero. The journey is a journey where individuals find themselves experiencing a baptism by fire. It's that moment when they are just about to lose their lives but find the answer that gives their life meaning.

My World

Vahla: My birth story was