A review by alizasminilibrary
Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis

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5.0

When it comes to memoirs a big portion of the ones I have read are typically from white authors or men. Those are the ones that typically get praised and uplifted. I do not want to diminish the work of those authors because they cannot change who they are and they deserve to be supported however it is hard to find memoirs of black women that do not get torn down and regarded as them just whining or unlikeable.

Listening to Mrs.Viola Davis explain her life and how she became who she is while struggling to understand herself as an impoverished black woman struggling and in a place where young girls were preyed on and black people were seen as less, ripped out my soul and formulated a mixture of emotions I have no way else to describe than as pain.

As a black woman who was grown up in poverty and who constantly moved around my only reprieve was the black community. This is a wonderful read that I will be recommending to as many people as I can. Especially to black woman, Mrs.Davis breaks the generational barriers of acknowledging issues such as mental illness, and having a differing personality than that expected of a black woman. 

It is also just the funniest thing ever that Mrs.Davis visited The Gambia, which is where my father was born and raised and where my half-siblings all still live.
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