Oprah Winfrey became the first black woman to be awarded Cecil B. DeMille for her "extraordinary contributions to the entertainment world" at the Golden Globe Awards ceremony held on Sunday. He was dressed in black just like everyone else who attended the ceremony; In order to support the Time's Up fund, which 300 women from various areas of Hollywood on January 1 created to provide legal assistance to employees exposed to sexual harassment in different sectors. In his talk, Oprah talked about the scandal that shook the entertainment industry last year, as well as its deep-rooted past that covered much more backwards and far wider masses, but it also did not neglect the hope; so that the people came to the bazaar, wants the president. The translation of the speech below:
Thank you, Reese. I was a little girl in 1964, following Anne Bancroft, who presented the best actor Oscar at the 26th Academy Awards, sitting on the cheap floor covering of her mother in Milwaukee. He opened the envelope and said five words that would officially pass: "And the owner of the award is Sidney Poitier." The most elegant and elegant man I've seen so far has come to the scene. The tie was white, his skin black and celebrated. I never saw a black man so celebrated. In such a moment, I tried to explain many times what a mother-in-law, a mother-in-law, who is watching a TV for a small girl, is coming to the door from a door when she is exhausted from cleaning other people's houses. But all I can do is explain this with a quote from Sidney's Lily of the Pastures: "Amen, amen, amen, amen."
In 1982, Sidney earned the Cecil B. DeMille award here at the Golden Globe Awards, and I am now fully aware that she is the youngest girl to witness the formation of the first black woman to receive the same award. This is a honor. It is a honor and a privilege to share this night with these great men and women who inspire me and inspire me, challenge me, empower me, and make it possible for my journey to reach this scene. A.M. Dennis Swanson, who gave me the chance in Chicago ... He saw me on the line and said to Steven Spielberg, 'This is Sophia in the Purple Years.' My buddy Gayle and Stedman, who I lie on my back in tough times ...
I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. We know that the press is under siege these days. We also know that it is an indomitable dedication that reveals the truth that is detrimental to corruption and injustice. Against tyrants and victims, secrets and lies ... I would like to say that while I try to manage these complicated times, I value more than ever. That brings me here: I am sure that telling what we know is the most powerful tool we all have. I am especially proud of all the women who feel and are strong enough to share their personal stories, and I am inspired by them. Everyone in this room is celebrated for the stories they tell, and this year we are the story itself.
But this is not just a story that affects the entertainment industry. It is a kind of story that goes beyond culture, geography, race, religion, politics or industry. So, tonight, I want to thank all women for years of abuse and aggression, just like my mother, for the children to be fed, the bills to pay, and the dreams that come after them. They are the women we will never know their names. They are home and farm workers. They work in factories, restaurants. They are in academia, engineering, medicine or science. They are part of technology, politics and business. They are our athletes in the Olympics and our soldiers in the army ...
There's one other person, Recy Taylor - a name I think I should know that you should know. In 1944, Recy Taylor was abducted by a six-armed white man who was married to a newly married mother who walked home after a church ritual in Abbeville Alabama, where he was laid off and his eyes glued to the side of the road leading from the church to his home. He is threatened with killing him if he tells anyone, but his story has been reported to the National Association for the Advancement of Black People (NAACP) and became a chief investigator of Taylor's file, a young employee named Rosa Parks. They seek justice together. However, Jim Crow (law) was not in the right time justice options. The men who tried to destroy it paid no price. Recy Taylor died 10 days ago, day 98 days of age. We have all lived as we have been - for so long, in a cult of brutal powerful men ... For a very long time, women did not hear or believe them even when they showed courage to talk about these men at any cost. But time has passed. Their time has passed.
And I hope that Recy Taylor is dead knowing that truth is going to continue as if it were the truth of many women who have been tortured and even now even seen for all these years. That truth was somewhere in the heart of Rosa Parks, almost 11 years later, when he decided to get out of that bus station in Montgomery. Now she's here with every woman who chooses to say "I too." And with every man who chooses to listen.
Throughout my career, I've always been trying to do what's best to tell me something about how women and men actually behave, whether on TV or in cinema. To describe how the shame is living, how we love, how we are angry, how we fall, how we draw, how we grasp and how we come from above ... I have made interviews with people who have endured the most ugly things that life can throw at us and revive them. The common feature of all of them was the ability to preserve even the darkest nights in hope of waking up to a brighter sigh.
So now, here, I want all the following girls to know that there is a new day on the horizon! And when that day finally emerges, it will be thanks to wonderful women and great men who are fighting hard to turn into leaders who carry us into a future where no one will have to say 'me' anymore, and some of whom are here tonight.
