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1. 0:00I'm up here to say thank you to God for
2. 0:02giving me this ability,
3. 0:04for blessing me,
4. 0:06for shaping me, for chastising me,
5. 0:09for teaching me, for punishing me,
6. 0:12for allowing me to be a vessel
7. 0:15and touch
8. 0:17people around the world. I want to thank
9. 0:19AFI,
10. 0:21Cicely Tyson,
11. 0:23Ed Wicks, Spike Lee,
12. 0:26Carl Franklin, Alan
13. 0:28my mother. She's 95 years old now.
14. 0:34She's something else. She's tough.
15. 0:37Everything ends in because I'm your
16. 0:38mother, that's why. Shut up. Still,
17. 0:40still the other day. Cuz I'm your
18. 0:42mother, that's why. Shut up.
19. 0:45To my father who taught me by example
20. 0:48how to be a gentle
21. 0:50man,
22. 0:51the
23. 0:54most
24. 0:55important person in my life.
25. 0:5940 years,
26. 1:0040 years of sacrifice,
27. 1:0340 years of forgiveness.
28. 1:05She taught me about faith, spirituality,
29. 1:09love, real love,
30. 1:12unwavering love in spite of myself.
31. 1:16I would not be
32. 1:19alive
33. 1:20without Pauletta Washington. I wouldn't
34. 1:22be alive.
35. 1:26Small minds
36. 1:29discuss other people.
37. 1:32Gossip.
38. 1:34Good minds discuss events.
39. 1:36Great minds discuss ideas.
40. 1:38That was Eleanor Roosevelt.
41. 1:41That was also Pauletta's father, my
42. 1:42father-in-law. He was a great man.
43. 1:45He taught me so much about
44. 1:47what being a man really is.