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## Video: Angela Bassett's Toast at the 2023 TIME Women of the Year Gala

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_Published 2023-03-09. Angela Bassett: “It is my honor to be placed into history alongside each of you.”_


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## Transcript

A beautiful congregation. First, I am deeply grateful being recognized as one of Time magazine's women of the year. I remember, as a little girl seeing issues of Time, Magazine at the family, and friends houses thinking, how important and impactful that these people must be to have merited a mention in the pages of this magazine and now to think I'm one of those people and it feels me. it fills me with great pride, I have been asked throughout this Awards season, just what having this Oscar nomination, 29 years since my last means to me You see, when I came into this business, the path was not clear.

I grew up at a time when it was a special occasion when people who look like me were featured on the television screen or movie screen or in the theaters. But it was women like Rosalind Cash and Ruby. Dee Diane Carroll and Cicely Tyson who's perseverance. And resilient led me to have courage, courage to stay the course, no matter what the obstacles. So, when I think about what this Oscar nomination, I will humbly say that it will be part of my legacy as a woman as a black woman and as a black actress, who dare to dream that I could continue the Journey of the women who came before me in this business, making way.

For future generations of black and brown women. 21-day stand on that stage. It is also as well to celebrate the lives of the women. Whose stories I have been honored to tell over the past 30 years. This is a moment not just for me, but one for them as well. And finally, I toast, each of my women of the year honorees, it is my honor to be placed in history. Alongside you saw Lou Bravo.

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