Nicole Beharie WCE

, i am not crying. don’t hurt yourself // beyonce

“In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there no how. I can’t seem to get over that line.’ That was Harriet Tubman in the 1800s. And let me tell you something. The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there. So here’s to all the writers, the awesome people… People who have redefined what it means to be beautiful, to be sexy, to be a leading woman. To be black.”

Miranda Bailey, Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) || Bonnie Bennett, The Vampire Diaries (CW) || Anika Calhoun, Empire (FOX) || Joanne Collins, Heroes Reborn (NBC) || Stephanie Edwards, Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) || Tabitha Galavan, Gotham (ABC) || Daisy Grant, Madam Secretary (CBS) || Rainbow Johnson, Black-ish (ABC) || Annalise Keating, How to Get Away with Murder (ABC) || Cookie Lyon, Empire (FOX) || Bethany Mayfair, Blindspot (NBC) || Abbie Mills, Sleepy Hollow (FOX) || Jenny Mills, Sleepy Hollow (FOX) || Lanie Parish, Castle (ABC) || Sonja Percy, NCIS: New Orleans (CBS) || Margaret Pierce, Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) || Olivia Pope, Scandal (ABC) || Michaela Pratt, How to Get Away with Murder (ABC) || Lucca Quinn, The Good Wife (CBS) || Donna Rosewood, Rosewood (FOX) || Pippy Rosewood, Rosewood (FOX) || Ruby, Black-ish (ABC) || Camille Saroyan, Bones (FOX) || Miranda Shaw, Quantico (ABC) || Hayley Shipton, Castle (ABC) || Loretta Wade, NCIS: New Orleans (CBS) || Iris West, The Flash (CW) || Becky Williams, Empire (FOX) || Zayday Williams, Scream Queens (FOX) || Lara Vega, Minority Report (FOX)