Small-Town Church Girl to Oscar Nominee with Danielle Brooks
Authenticity as Career Foundation: Her breakthrough role as Poussey in Orange is the New Black succeeded because she and the cast remained authentic (natural hair, no makeup, no spanx), proving that being 'enough' as onetakeaway“When we were on that show we had no makeup on natural hair no spanx and heels to be cute none of that we were ourselves and people fell in love with who we were... that alone own showed me I'm enough.”quote














