Jada Pinkett Smithmay not be sure if she’s worthy of the trailblazer award, but her friends have no doubts whatsoever!
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Of their friend, Latifah explained, “She has a really good heart, she cares about people,” while Keys chimed in about Smith’s worldwide impact and noted how “she is a powerful voice for women.”
She went on to share how she started questioning why she didn’t deserve the award and told the audience that she came to the realization that everyone has the power to be a “trailblazer.”
“It was because I was comparing myself to all the many trailblazers that I admired and I realized, ‘Okay, maybe we do have something in common,'” she explained. “Often we applaud the trails that people blaze in the external world that we can see, but very rarely do we applaud the trails that are blazed in the hidden rooms of the mind, that are full of uncertainty, false beliefs, and pain.”
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“It’s these eternal obstacles that must be challenged in order to muster the courage to forge new paths that we can see in the world,” she said before noting, “Every last person in this room must do that at some capacity.”
“That means that every single person in this room is trailblazing whether it’s within or without,” she added. “So as you honor me tonight, I wanna honor all of you and I wanna say here’s to us for all of our trailblazing!”
Previous recipients of the award include Lena Waithe, Shailene Woodley,Channing Tatum, Emma Watson and Emma Stone.
The Facebook Watch show gained widespread attention when Jordyn Woods appeared in a one-on-one with Smith, a close family friend, to discuss thescandalinvolvingTristan ThompsonandKhloé Kardashian.
The show currently has over 5.6 million followers on Facebook, and earned its first nomination for the Daytime Emmy Award’s Outstanding Talk Show category
source: people.com
