An Audio Book Review: Finding Me by Viola Davis

The veracity that dark-skinned Black women are always running a race, but they never appear to cross the finish line is overwhelming. Being discriminated against from all races in society, even their own. As much as this issue has been explored, I don’t think that anyone will ever come close to such a great explanation and presentation of the answer as Viola Davis has done in her audiobook “Finding Me”. Her descriptive account of her life as a dark-skinned black woman is far from being banal.

Starting from her impoverished beginnings in Rhode Island to her celebrated territory in California, Viola Davis understands one fact. The fact that society will always use the color of her skin and negative connotations to define her, but Viola Davis refused to let that be.

Thus, she uses these connotations to look within to find her own truth and beauty. Not just external beauty, but internal beauty that is found in the true character, transparency and compassion of a person. The gems that she learned along the way through lived experiences, she has dropped for other Black women to learn from in “Finding Me”.

In her book, Viola Davis does a great job of sharing her life experiences to help other Black women feel seen, seen not only by the society in which we live but seen through their own eyes in a positive light. She…