00:00Detroit, they make cars, here we make entertainment.
00:12It's always important for African American people, and especially African women, to celebrate themselves.
00:20That's one of the things that we have that's natural that we get away from.
00:24We think of celebration as something you take on or you pump up for, but you know what?
00:31Every time you go out for the hunt, every time you go out for the gathering, you come back and celebrate.
00:37And when we were real colored people and work in the land, we celebrated because you understood that those connections and fellowship was the thing, the most important thing in life,
00:48because you didn't have a lot of other stuff. I'm talking historically.
00:52What we're doing is recreating human actions. We're telling human stories.
00:58And if you're not living as a human being, if you're trying to stay relevant or trying to be the hype,
01:05then your work, your song, your story, your film, is just going to be this interesting, that deep.
01:15Because it is not out of the context of who human beings are and how they love, how they fight, how they grow.
01:24My alleged legacy as an actor.
01:27I would hope that a person that was looking to it for inspiration would realize that all the colors that are present in my work and all the notes are possible to hit.
01:44And hopefully they'll even hit higher notes and deeper notes.
01:48The world stays on its axis because of black women.
