Viola Davis thanked the black women who have broken barriers before her during a moving Emmy acceptance speech for Lead Actress in a Drama Series on Sunday.
At the beginning of her emotional speech, the “How to Get Away With Murder” star quoted the 19th-century abolitionist and humanitarian Harriet Tubman.
“In my mind, I see a line,” she said. “And over that line I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me to get over that line but I can’t seem to get there no how. I can’t seem to get over that line.