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Not only is Davis thankful for the writers who casted her as lead actress in “How to Get Away with Murder”, she is also grateful to the women who have changed beauty standards and stereotypes of black women as their respective characters, as well as in the lives they live. She again elicits an emotional response by giving thanks to the “Taraji P. Hensons, the Kerry Washingtons, the Halle Berrys, the Nicole Beharies, the Meagan Goods, to Gabrielle Union” for “taking [them] over that line”. She thanks these women because they “have redefined what it means to be beautiful, to be sexy, to be a leading woman, to be black”. In doing so, she refers to all women of color as a whole for their achievements against the metaphoric line of inequality that

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