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How would you react if The New York Times described you as "less classically beautiful" than your peers, let alone in the same story labeling your friend as an "angry black woman"?
If you're Oscar-nominated Viola Davis, the star of ABC's new How to Get Away With Murder, you reply eloquently on national TV. That's what she did on The View.
"I think that beauty is subjective," she said. "I've heard that statement my entire life. Being a dark-skinned black woman — you hear it from the time you get out of the womb Classically not beautiful is a fancy term of saying ugly, and denouncing you, erasing you. Now it worked when I was younger; it no longer works for me now. ... Because really at the end of the day, you define you." Read more...
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