“If you’re my audience, it’s not my job to give you a fantasy. It is my job to give you yourself. In people there is an infinite box of different types, different situations, different behaviors. Those types contradict perceptions. They tear down preconceived notions. They are as complicated and vast as the galaxy itself. In life, I exist.”

Reading an autobiography always feels to me like borderline cheating: one just sits there comfortably and leafs through another's lifetime of hard-earned wisdom in a matter of hours. Nonetheless, Finding Me was not a comfortable read. It was raw, bravely vulnerable, unapologetically honest, but most importantly, it was powerful. The first time I ever heard of Viola Davis was just last year when I randomly watched a youtube video of a scene from HTGAWM where she gave a corrupt senator an earful and I (100% unsarcastically) thought: when I grow up, I want to be like her. I binged all six seasons in a matter of weeks and that chain reaction ultimately led me here. Needless to say, I do not regret a thing. Regardless of whether you are a Davis' fan or not, I recommend this to anyone who enjoys a real-life pain to power story.