This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. 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.
As I wrote Finding Me, my 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 I wrote this for anyone who is searching for a way to understand and overcome a complicated past, let go of shame, and find acceptance.
For anyone who needs reminding that a life worth living can only be born from radical honesty and the courage to shed facades and be…you.
Finding Me is a deep reflection on my past and a promise for my future. My hope is that my story will inspire you to light up your own life with creative expression and rediscover who you were before the world put a label on you.
Valentine Robai Inziani (verified owner) –
This book was so good. So deep, honest and passionate. I can’t find the right words to describe it. It’s on point!
Micah Mukhwana Sikuku –
This book is good, it not only enlightens a person’s life but also helps them to find themselves in the midst of rejection and depression in life.
Chief, the NuriaStore bookseller –
Viola Davis shares her story of how she worked her way up through the system and broke the glass ceiling and she shares how grueling the journey was, she shares her heartbreak and the trauma it took to strike at that ceiling then the cuts as she rose through the shards of glass that seem to be endless even as she has “made it”. The first twelve chapters of the book chronicle her childhood. Which was brutal. The poverty that her family faced was like reading a modern day Charles Dickens story. Her family lived in Delaware and she graphically shares a level of poverty that we don’t often hear uttered by Black folks. You see, people talk about being poor, but in Viola Davis’ writing she pours out the reality of the shame and the isolation in plain sight of poverty.