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“I am a woman, I am an artist, and I know where my voice belongs”, Sheryl Lee Ralph sang onstage Monday, performing a few lines from Dianne Reeves’ “Endangered Species” after winning the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
After she sang, she said: “To anyone who has ever, ever, had a dream and thought your dream wasn’t, couldn’t, wouldn’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.”
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She also added: “I’m the little 5-year-old girl who watched TV on a Sunday night when Tinkerbell went around the steeple. I’m going to Hollywood, I’m to be an actress”
The part that contains Ms Ralph's acceptance begins a the 4 minute mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRw8IFLS1Fs