Oh, hi friends!
What are some of your unopened doors?
Or, to be more precise, what is one of your unopened doors?
A project you’ve yet to explore, a threshold you haven’t met, a path adjacent to the one you’re on now…
I’m curious. What comes to mind?
Because some doors stay closed for a good reason.
But others are just waiting for you to find the handle — and push.
I am an endangered species
But I sing no victim song
I am a woman
I am an artist
And I know where my voice belongs
“To anyone who has ever had a dream and thought your dream wasn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t come true, I am here to tell you that this is what believing looks like. This is what striving looks like. And don’t you ever, ever give up on you. Because if you get a Quinta Brunson in your corner, if you get a husband like mine in your corner, if you get children like mine in your corner, and if you’ve got friends like everybody who voted for me, cheered for me, loved me, thank you, thank you thank you.”
—Sheryl Lee Ralph
You might have already seen her Emmy acceptance speech, but it’s worth watching again (and again and again).
Btw, I just read the pilot for Abbott Elementary last week after finally watching the show. The script is on the Internet here — a hilarious blueprint on how to write a sitcom in 2022.
And here’s a good backgrounder on Quinta Brunson’s path to writing the show, which was partly inspired by her mother’s experience as a teacher in Philadelphia.