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Kerry Washington speech at her Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony
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12/2/2024
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Kerry Washington speech at her Hollywood Walk of Fame star unveiling ceremony on Monday, December 2, 2024, at 6258 Hollywood Blvd. in front of the W Hotel in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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I'd like to present our newest walk-of-famer Kerry Washington sit down
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thank you all so much for being here I'm so grateful to see you all I want to say
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a very special thank you to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce for this
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star and for this day do I get to like do whatever I want for the rest of my
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life on December 2nd thank you to my Netflix family thank you for being here
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thank you to my Disney family thank you so much for being here I want to say
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thank you to Katherine Atkinson and everybody at Washington Square Arts my
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manager for I won't say how many years because she doesn't like us to tell
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people to everyone at lead company my incredible publicity team my agency CAA
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Tracy and Rick I know you're here Pilar Savone my partner at Simpson Street and
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Gretchen Rush and we win thank you my legal team and thank you to Shonda Rhimes
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and to Tyler Perry I love you both so much thank you okay so my mom is one of
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seven children born to immigrant parents from Jamaica who dreamt of yeah Jamaica
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who dreamt of providing a better life for their children and maybe one day by
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the grace of God their grandchildren for years they all live together in this
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tiny apartment all nine of them the stories of their early lives on Simpson
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Street are filled with lore there were summer nights on the front steps photos
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on the rooftop for Easter Sunday they slept for girls to a bed and my mother's
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entire existence had to fit in one drawer of a narrow dresser as kids my
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cousins and I would giggle hearing the tales of my uncle Cliff teasing his
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youngest sister my aunt Daph by lifting her up to swing from the pipes in the
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basement and then leaving her there to fend for herself he eventually came back
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of course it was just the usual teasing that siblings do but nevertheless she
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was terrified and it was a great story it was part of our family legend in 2016
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I named my production company Simpson Street after the street in the Bronx
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that my mother and her siblings grew up on because that was in many ways our
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families once upon a time years later decades later that same uncle Cliff all
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grown up came to Los Angeles on a vacation with his wife Vicki and he
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found a star somewhere on this Walk of Fame with his last name on it my
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mother's maiden name Moss so I don't know maybe it was Jerry Moss or
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Elizabeth Moss we don't really know exactly who it was because he used his
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body and the angle of the camera to cover the first name of the real
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recipient and all you could see was his proud smile and Moss with a star all
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around it on that day in that moment my uncle Cliff was a star he made it all
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the way from Simpson Street to Hollywood because just like his parents he dared
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to dream my mom and dad also taught me to dream they taught me to believe and
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to pursue and so here we are mom dad can you believe it an actual star you
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made a wish and it came true and now I am swirling in a galaxy of other stars
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all encouraging each other to shine brightly and to light the way for
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somebody else's dreams it's fun for me to imagine some kid with the last name
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Washington or maybe the first name Carrie using their pose in a selfie to
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cover up half of my name to make room for their legacy I cannot be the first
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person up here who has quoted Carl Sagan he famously said that the cosmos are
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within us we are made of star stuff and scientifically it's true every living
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living being on earth is made up of the remnants of stardust no matter where we
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come from we share a common heritage we come from ancient stars so many of you
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here sitting today so many of you are part of how I got here my prayer today
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is that my starlight continue to connect me to the light that shines in each of
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you you've made this moment possible so many of you sitting here and those of
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you watching online I'm grateful for the starlight in you that has allowed me to
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be here today may you always know that this star this Carrie Washington star
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this is our star it is your star your star as much as it as it is mine so
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thank you for being on this cosmic journey with me may we keep shining and
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lighting the way for each other and for the world thank you
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