Finding Me

by Viola Davis

Morrison in The Bluest Eye says that “a person’s love is only as good as the person; a stupid person loves stupidly, a violent man loves violently.” The love of a man who puts you first, who is evolved and who always wants

in 2003. My biggest discovery was that you can literally re-create your life. You can redefine it. You don’t have to live in the past.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a different past. They

You can’t change the past, no matter how much you want to.

The purpose of life is to live it.

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My job is not to study other actors, because that is not studying life. As much as I can, I study people.

I now understand that life, and living it, is more about being present.

All we can be is present.