NotesFromtheVoices

  “Who am I? 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. Because I was…Black.” –“ Finding Me” by Viola Davis   If I could recommend one memoir to read in 2022, it would be “Finding Me” by Viola Davis. This memoir by the award-winning actress was amazing. Reading “Finding Me” was like having a conversation with her about how her life experiences made her the person she is today. Davis said the book is her story , starting  from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. On the book jacket, she said, “This is the path I took to finding my purpose and my strength, but also to finding my voice in a world that didn’t always see me. ” She went on to say ,  as she wrote  Finding Me , her eyes were open to the truth of how our stories are often not given close examination. They are bogarted, reinvented to fit into a crazy, competitive, judgmental world.  “So