Beah Richards(1920-2000)

Died just days after receiving Emmy award for Los practicantes (1997), which was accepted for her by LisaGay Hamilton and delivered to Vicksburg.

[quoted in "I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America"] There are a lot of movies out there that I would hate to be paid to do, some real demeaning, real woman-denigrating stuff. It is up to women to change their roles. They are going to have to write the stuff and do it. And they will.