The Best of Viola Davis

Veronica
"We have a lot of work to do, crying is not on the list."

Rose Maxson
"Your daddy wanted you to be everything he wasn't, and at the same time, he wanted you to be everything he was."

Ma Rainey
"They don't care nothin' about me. All they want is my voice. Well, I done learned that. And they gonna treat me the way I wanna be treated, no matter how much it hurt them."

Mrs. Miller
"You can't hold a child responsible for what God gave him to be."

Nancy Birch

Amanda Waller
"You know the deal: successfully complete the mission and you get ten years off your sentence. You fail to follow my orders in any way, and I detonate the explosive device in the base of your skull."

Aibileen Clark
"All you do is scare and lie to try and get what you want."

Eva May

Moselle

Carol Barrett
"You can call me "chica" any time you want."