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Danielle Brooks

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2024-01-03
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  1. “The gift that Sophia has given me is living in my power and living in my strength. And no matter how many times you might fall in this life, you can get back up. You can be restored. You can find yourself again. And I am so grateful for that reminder. Even in the song Hell No D? Hell no to that fear. Hell no, a feeling like you're not enough. Hell no to feeling like you're not deserving. You deserve everything that God has for you. So I thank her so much because I hope that the next 60 years, 70 years of my life. I can always lean on that and I can always lean on the words of Alice Walker, and I can always lean on these songs.”

    2024-01-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · The Color Purple Ep 3: Danielle Brooks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Oh, I don't know. I have a mixed feeling with this thing and thing. I do. I do. I like singing when it comes to like television film, but like doing what Fantasia does and Sierra does, I'm good. Y'all can have it.”

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  3. “There's so much healing in these songs that they've created and made and they will live on forever because they're about love, they're about joy, they're about picking yourself back up, knowing that you're beautiful. These foundational things that will keep us alive and keep us going.”

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  4. “I have to say, just two weeks ago, I was really going through it. And I said, you know, I'm going to take a walk. And I started listening to I'm here. Oh my gosh. And I listened to the Fantasia version when she was on Broadway. And just listening to the words, what was want to think of one specific, I believe I have inside of me everything that I need to live a bountiful life. That just got me. And so I just hold on to all of these God is inside me and everyone else. There's just so many moments that. Know it's Sunday morning. So make a joyful noise.”

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  5. “Like it's gonna love it. She ain't gonna like it. She's gonna love it. She's gonna devour it. Yeah, you hear me. The music, it's so healing.”

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  6. “31. Okay. Okay. I'm 33. It's definitely been a transformative experience for me. One that I think is still revealing itself to me. I think when this film comes out, I will have more clarity on what that is. But I know now it's just giving me. More confidence in myself as an artist, more reassurance on the choices that I make. It reminds me as a black woman that we have a space in this world where we will be seen. And can be heard, and so I just am very glad to also be a part of the legacy of the Color Purple, to be a part of the Color Purple family, and to get to be a part of what generations and generations will continue to hold on to.”

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  7. “I am so grateful because I just remember at the time the script is a lot of script and they were trying to find ways to cut and things like that. And I remember us doing reading of it where that Particular part of was not in there. And I was like bliss, let me talk to you, man. We're going to have to make sure that this is in here because Miss O did this and there is a story that is behind this, that generations after generations need to know.”

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  8. “Yeah, yeah. Everybody is, everyone shines in this. And it's so cool because we're all so different. So I think everybody is going to see themselves through all of us. And that's cool.”

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  9. “That life can be full of that. Like we all deserve joy and happiness. We have the capacity to give that to one another. You know what I'm saying?”

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  10. “But now it's saying hell no to the disbelief that I belong. The disbelief that I'm not deserving. I am deserving. I do belong. There's a space for me in this industry. And I think that was the biggest thing when I watched the film. I was reminded of that. You know, and I'm so excited for so many women to be healed however that is for them, whether that is feeling like they're not enough or feeling like they're undeserving or if it is about stepping away from domestic abuse or from racial discrimination, whatever that is for them, I'm very excited for the healing that they will receive from hell no.”

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  11. “Well, the beautiful part about playing her on stage was there was a simplicity, right? We had cut all of the hoo-ha and went down to just having a sheet that represented a baby and all of these little things, right? But now. I actually have a baby. There's a difference to that. There's a weight to it. There's something different when you are now in the heat of Georgia on a plantation with thousands of trees Walking to juke joint or Sophia's house, so it just deepened for me, I think. And I feel that, you know, especially for those moments, I kept thinking about how many of our brothers and sisters who might have been hung on those trees. You know, it just deepened”

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  12. “Yeah. You were like, if I'm going to pass the torch, I'm going to have to be here for this day. And so. In there and read my little vial of Davis book because I was like, okay, I need something to ground me, it's something about her. It just is so relatable because we both went to Juilliard and all that stuff. So I was sitting there reading that book and I knew you were in the back. I was like, I just need to ground myself. And yeah, it was.”

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  13. “And you have, like, there's so many great resources just getting back to the book. Yes. And how beautiful, you know, Miss Alice Walker's words are. So I feel like this was an ordained moment.”

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  14. “Were you scared? I don't think I was scared per se because I feel like God prepares us in very interesting ways. And I think if I hadn't gone on the journey of playing Sophia for a year on Broadway for eight shows a week in front of 1,100 people a day. Sometimes twice a day, I think I would have been a little shook. But I feel like God said, this is your moment. This is your time. This is ordained for you to do this role. And I had to step into that and do it wholeheartedly. And to be honest,”

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  15. “My cup overflowed, my heart was up here, if we can even be up here. It was like, it was a feeling that I feel is very undescribable because, you know, as an actor, you just pray for moments like this. And this character I love so much. And I know that you love so much. So to get to embody her again to the masses.”

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  16. “Oh my first Broadway show. And so I stepped into the role. I was so honored because of you, of course, having left your stamp and getting to step into the character of Sophia. And that moment was so incredible. Like just being in your presence at the time. And my first time being interviewed by you, you know, that was so cool. So then cut to, I don't even know how many years.”

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  17. “And getting nosed. And I didn't understand why I was getting all of these. But I now know it's because God said your first Broadway show has to be, needs to be the color purple.”

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  18. “It was like the only black show on Broadway at the time, and my dad was like, my little theater daughter needs to see that. So he took me to see it. And I was in awe. I was beside myself because I had, for the first time, seen people that looked like me on a stage where they were just so professional and so incredibly talented and so I just remember being like this at the theater. And my dad was a big man. So he was uncomfortable in them seats and he was like, I need to go. And I was like, well, go. I'm just going to sit here. And I sat there in tears. Because the possibilities for my life had finally opened up. And I was like, I can do that. Cut two. Me graduating Juilliard auditioning for thousands, not really, but you know it feels like that as an actor. Thousands of Broadway shows.”

    2024-01-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · The Color Purple Ep 3: Danielle Brooks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source