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Angela Bassett

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  1. “Call your number. Yes. So you're right, the best is yet to be revealed. That's right. I thank you, Angela Bassett. Thank you. Thank you. You know, Maya Angelou wrote once, you make me proud to spell my name W O M A N. Those are her words, but I'm taking her words to say that to you today. You make me proud to spell my name W O M A N.”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “What I loved is you ended your speech at the academy by saying the best is yet to come. Do you have an idea what that is or do you know in your spirit in the same way that you knew when you decided to tell your uncle you were not coming back to New York? 35 years ago.”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Rest on your feet and stay where I can see you. I need to keep an eye on you. Yeah. I love this poem by Derek Walcott. It's called Love After Love. And one of the last lines of Love After Love, it's one of my favorite poems, is sit. Feast on your life, sit and feast on your life. Take all the old love letters from the shelves and sit and feast on your life. Have you been able to take in this wondrous life that you are living in this moment and feast on your remarkable accomplishments?”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “It's managing everything It's so interesting, Courtney and Dr. Robin. I did an interview with him about his book Invisible Ape.”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “I remember years ago some parental therapist on the Oprah Show was saying that many parents don't recognize when they need to be managers and when the time comes that they can no longer manage, then they'll just consult them.”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “And now they're both ready to go off to God. What are y'all gonna do when the children are off at college at the same time?”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “What it indicated to me, and I think to so many other people, that this is a household where respect and reverence and paying attention and politeness. I mean, like”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Wow. I remember when they were first on the Oprah Show, when they were like little, they weren't even toddlers. They couldn't even crawl or walk at the time. And I love the moment at the Governor's Ward when you say rest on your feet.”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “And have raised the most respectful, kind, gracious, smart, engaging children. In this world, in this environment, at this particular time, I mean,”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “I just want to talk about your family. I think, first of all, the fact that you and Courtney have been together now almost 30 years, almost 30 years.”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “And you know what's interesting? That actually teaches your children more than anything you can ever say about what you're supposed to do is how you behaved in that moment. Okay, you are currently starring as Miss Badass LAPD patrol sergeant Athena Grant Nash on 911 on ABC. What has played that done for you? What has that character given to you? Is she fun?”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “I thought you had so well Supreme disappoint I thought you did. I thought you did. So I didn't get the whole Angela Bassett face. I thought, wow, you can see that, oh, well, I expected another thing, but you were still as gracious. A queen would be”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “Were you gobs back? Were you gobsmacked? And so Angela Bassett's face became like all over the internet. And I thought you actually handled it really well because people are saying your disappointment showed, but I thought you handled it very well. What did you think? Thank you.”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “No. No. Oh, you brought the queen. You brought the queendom. You brought it down. You lifted it up. That's who we are. You took us there. So last year I'm in my house. We're all in our pajamas watching you on Oscar Night. You're wearing purple? Yes. 30 years after you were nominated for What's Love Got to Do With It, but didn't win. So I just knew your name was going to be called.”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “Well, what we know now, 40, you're just getting started. You are just stepping into it. You are just stepping into it. And then around 44, it heats up. It's starting to get good, right?”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “Might want to read my mind. It's hard to believe now that it's been almost 25 years since Stella got her groove back. I hear that women still come up to you and say, I got my groove What did that mean to you doing that film?”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “I was thinking, Angela really, really brings up the anger of every woman who's ever been betrayed, who's ever felt like I believed in you, I trusted you, I gave to you, I was there for you, and everything that you're pulling from the closet and throwing in the pile represents that.”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “Single step of Can we talk about waiting to exhale and that scene when Bernardine sets fire to her cheating husband's car? I'm sure that scene, I just looked at it recently, that that thing was choreographed when you're going in and it was high.”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “When you were named to the Time 100 list, she wrote the article about you and she said, you never mimicked me. Instead, you reach deep into your soul, found your inner Tina, and showed her to the world. That is your gift. Becoming your character with conviction, truth, dignity, and grace, whether you're Tina Turner or the Queen of Wakanda. We believe in you because you believe in yourself. You honor all the women you play just as you honored me and you're still.”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  20. “You are so good that you didn't just act it, that it was coming from your soul and it felt so real. That she could not make herself watch it.”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  21. “You're like, but you know, you haven't seen it, but now I know. Well, let me tell you what she told me. Let me tell you. Tell me what she told me about you. She said you were too good”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  22. “You know, it's interesting. I was watching her documentary recently and I saw where she came in and everybody's like, Oh, Miss Turner, what do you think of the film? And she said she hadn't seen the film.”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  23. “You've played so many iconic real life women, Betty Shabazz and Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott, the Greats. Where does Scott Keene? And of course, Tina Turner. What did you learn about yourself through Tina?”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  24. “Cicely Tyson, also the same, would never choose anything that she thought was not elevating the entire spectrum of black womanhood. Sidney Poitier, the same.”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  25. “You have said, you said this every role that I've taken on has been to break through those perceptions of us as black women, to show our humanity, to tell the diversity of our stories, and to share the complexities of what it means to be black and a woman. So is that the foundation for you when you're reading a script? As to how it's going to show the complexity and how it's going to portray the image of the black women in the world in a way that that image is consistently lifted”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  26. “Let's talk about that first film Boys in the Hood, which is such an iconic and groundbreaking film. What do you remember about that experience? Could you feel the shift that was about to come in your life and career?”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  27. “But you knew it. Somewhere inside, Angeli, you knew it. You didn't know it would end up here. No. This in this form, but you could feel that thing.”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  28. “What do you think your mother, Betty, and your aunt Golden were thinking, watching you on that stage, accepting the Oscar, looking like an Oscar?”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  29. “I love the fact that your mother once told you that I don't have average children. Consider more of yourself, she said, and hold yourself to a higher standard. I remember when my father, I came home with a C once, and my father said, this is the last time there will be a C in this house because you're not an average student. If you were an average student, I would accept a C. But this is unacceptable coming from you. So when I read that your mother had said that, I thought you were brought up in the same kind of household. That's right.”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  30. “One of the things you said was that because of watching actresses like her, that you saw there was a way to fulfill what I believed in my soul was my destiny. I want you to describe how you knew in your soul that acting was Yeah”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  31. “I love the fact that you spoke her name, Cicely Tyson, and talked about the fact you knew that this was a way to fulfill your destiny, that you believed in your soul that this was your destiny, that getting to the point where you could use your body, your art, your talent as an expression to offer people stories. Absolutely. Yes.”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  32. “Regina King, your friend and co star, and Boys in the Hood, and how Stella got her Grooveback. Introduce you. I thought the introduction was equally as great as your response to it. Beyond Angela's talent is something that everyone who has worked with her will share with you. Work with Angela Onset and you become her friend for life. She has stitched a sisterhood that exists simply because of who she is as a woman and a human being. And she said, Angela has lived a career for the ages. She has a perspective and a voice and a beauty that is proudly black. I love this line. But what she embodies at her core is beyond anything that is skin deep. She is artistic excellence embodied in human form. When she was speaking, I wrote that down. Artistic excellence embodied in human form.”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  33. “Born in 1958 in Harlem, Angela was raised by her aunt Golden and Uncle Grover in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her single mother, Betty Jane, would eventually move with Angela and her sister to St. Petersburg, Florida. Angela's love for the stage sparked at a young age. As a budding actress, she studied at the prestigious Yale School of Drama, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts. Within a year, she was on Broadway in plays like August Wilson's Ma Rainy's Black Bottom and Joe Turner's Come and Gone. It wasn't long before Hollywood came a calling, Boys in the Hood, What's Love Got to Do With It? Waving to exhale, how Stella got her group back, Black Panther.”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  34. “Can you receive it? Because I think so many times everybody is always looking for the next thing and the next thing and the next thing. Are you at a space and a time where you can hear it, take it in, and know it? That's what Cicily Tyson used to say to me. Know it. Can you know it? She worked for it”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  35. “It's a testament to my legacy. This trophy represents my contributions to this medium of film. That I've given of my mind, body, and spirit as an actress who is a black woman. The Academy said this about you across her decades-long career. Angela Bassett has continued to deliver transcendent performances that set new standards in acting, establishing her as one of the most esteemed actors of her time. Woke. Nicely said. I receive it. And you can receive it. When I read it, I wondered, could you receive? You did that thing. Angela Bassett, you did that thing that you came here 35 years ago with a dream and now the academy of motion picture arts and sciences, which is the standard, says that you are one of the most esteemed actors of the time.”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  36. “I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present. Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right now. Hello, Angela Bassett. So we're at the stunning Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, and I thought that this was the perfect place to have a conversation with you at this time in your life and career, considering you just received an Oscar. And the speech that you gave will live on forever. I mean, the internet was going crazy. I think I've seen it multiple times because you can see that it came up out of your soul, but that you had thought about it, had given great consideration to what you wanted to say. This, for me, is not just another award.”

    2024-03-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Angela Bassett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source