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So happy to announce I’m preggers. 20 weeks in and feeling good! 💘
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My First Mother’s Day! I absolutely love being your mother Freeya!!
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Blessing upon blessings. So grateful to announce I’ll be playing Sofia in the upcoming Color Purple movie. Here’s a clip of how I found out I got the part from Oprah herself. 💜💜for full video head to my IG: daniebb3
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I had no idea they taped me this much. 😂
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Cause the face card never declines honey 😉
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Our love is rich like Godiva, sweet like the sugar cane of Haiti, hotter than the Carolina sun. 🤎🤎 The Engagement Edition.
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Been manifesting this one for five years and the time has finally come. ✨
#MahaliaJacksonstory
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You know I’ma keep a smile on my face honey. Still a winner baby!
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If I would’ve asked my 15 year old self, who do you think you’d become at 35? “Girl, the woman you see before you!!”Grateful for another year around the sun.
#itsmybirrhday
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Look what God has done!! So humbled by this enormous feat of becoming a Oscar Nominated Actress today!! Thank you God and to the
@TheAcademy
.
Grateful and honored. Thank you to
@TheAcademy
for nominating
#TheColorPurple
's Danielle Brooks for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
#Oscars
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Every time you think of Poussey, think of a real Human Being. Shed a real tear. Get angry about a real death.
#PhilandoCastile
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This is dope.
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Thank you for this honor. 💜
Danielle Brooks wins Best Supporting Actress for ‘THE COLOR PURPLE’ at the Black Film Critics Circle Awards.
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Happy Black History Month. Tell ‘em “Hell No” this month. 💜😉
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Yes it’s true. I birthed a diamond. 11.16.19 ❤️♾❤️ My sweet chocolate butter ball.
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What did black people ever do besides be forced to come here, build this country, raise your babies, to only then just want equal rights? 🤔
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Our last moment together from season 4! Love this one to the moon and back!
@oitnb
#poussey
#taystee
#taysteetuesday
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My first solo billboard in New York and it's the middle of Times Square!! Leaping with joy!
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Tomorrow, It’s going down!! Finale of
@DCpeacemaker
Time for
#adebayo
to kick some butt!
#idostunts
🤸♀️
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It’s my first solo cover with THEE
@Essence
magazine. Dreams do come true. In awe and in gratitude. ❤️🥹
“I can do the thing that I love that’s been so healing to me.” -
@thedanieb
Danielle has breathed new life into The Color Purple’s Sofia as only she can, delivering scene-stealing performances, earning her an Oscar nomination while reminding us all of the beautiful complexities
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Okaaayyy, I’m not mad at a little announcement. Very glad to be joining
@TheAcademy
❤️
Danielle Brooks has been invited to be a member of The Academy.
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Finding out I was Oscar nominated for playing
#Sofia
in
@TheColorPurple
went a little somethig like this. Thank you
@TheAcademy
for this highly esteemed honor.
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The day has finally come.
•Black Woman•
Available on all music platforms.
Video to come soon.🎶
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It’s an honor to raise you Freeya. Love, your mom.
@parentsmagazine
First mommy/ daughter cover.
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Should we do a love story next? Who would be my co-star ? 🔥🔥🔥
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Somebody has caught on. 😉
Danielle Brooks is now an EGOT nominee!
-1 Emmy nom
-1 Grammy nom (1 win)
-1 Oscar nom *pending*
-1 Tony nom
#DanielleBrooks
#Oscars
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This young girl just became a Golden globe nominee. 🥹💜Dreams really do come true. Congrats to my sis, Fantasia, on her nom and to the amazing cast/crew for their work on this film. Thank you
@goldenglobes
for this incredible honor, I am beyond humbled.
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And just like that, my chapter(s) with
@thecolorpurple
have come to an end. Thank you to everyone who has poured into me, sent a text, dm, a sweet tweet, voted, called, watched my interviews, loved on me in some capacity. Thank you. Next ride, MINECRAFT.
Onward and Upward. 💜
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Why Photoshop When You This P•H•A•T (Pretty, Hot, and Tempting)
#200plusclub
#voiceofthecurves
🍑
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Today’s the day! Grateful for this moment whatever the result.
@goldenglobes
#HappyNominee
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It’s such a beautiful thing when you become the person you knew existed inside of you all along. Thank you
@ELLEmagazine
@ninagarcia
This is major!!
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My dream really came true!! I am an Academy Award nominee forever. Thank you
@TheAcademy
for an evening I’ll never forget. Thank you my team, my family and friends and to my
@TheColorPurple
fam, I love y’all.
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Back to the stage I go. 🎭 Super excited to bring Beatrice to life.
Danielle Brooks (
@thedanieb
) will star in Shakespeare in the Park’s Much Ado About Nothing at the
@PublicTheaterNY
's Delacorte stage:
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My heart is so full from the outpour of love. I just want to say thank you. 💜
#TheColorPurple
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Chadwick Boseman was a hero to me. Seeing him rise out of SC and become so successful, bc of him I knew I would be able to as well. Such an inspiration. RIP. 🕊
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Thank You
@Variety
for capturing this moment! 💜💜
@LennyKravitz
🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 😊 😊😊😊😊😊
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Time moves so quickly. We’re at the end of the road. This show has been apart of my life for 7 yrs! I’ve been given the chance to stretch myself as an actress, further my reach as an activist, and have become a more confident woman because of this show. I am forever grateful- 🍊
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I'm sad to say I won't be able to make
#BWAY4BLM
tonight. I'm still filming but I am there in spirit. 💜🍊✊🏾
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I 💯 believe that we should END BULLYING and have been following this Keaton story but do your research guys. Reports are showing his mother is money hungry and racist. Don’t give to their gofundme account. It’s not in support of anything positive but to put 💰 in her pocket.
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Really tho!?! See this that ish I be talkin’ bout. 🤦🏿♀️ lol. maybe I should advertise smaller sizes by putting tights on my pinky toe? Sounds dumb don’t it?!? Cue eye roll.
People aren't happy with how this website is advertising its plus-size tights
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And that’s a wrap for me on
#colorpurple
Thank you cast, crew,
@Oprah
@BlitzAmbassador
and everyone who had a hand in getting me to this destination. It’s been life changing. I am forever grateful. 💜
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You know your director is cool as ish when he comes to work in a James Brown shirt. Miss these two.
@JamesGunn
@jennlholland
#Peacemaker
#bts
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I couldn’t find the words to describe how I feel today because I’m still processing this incredible dreamy moment, but tomorrow I’ll have something to share. 🥹💜🥹 I’m an Oscar nominated actress 4-Life baby!!! Cue scream! 😱
#TheColorPurple
#Sofia
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Hearing the news of her passing has left me in tears but I’m grateful to God that I got to share this smile with her. Thank you Aretha Franklin for leaving such an incredible legacy for generations among generations to stand on. May you Rest In Peace. 🙏🏾
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Full video. Mind still blown from when this happened 4 months ago.
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Thank you to my
@SAGAftra
PEERS for seeing me and acknowledging my work. 💜🥹 So excited to also share the ensemble nom with my
@thecolorpurple
family! This is just incredible. My heart is just beyond full.
@SAGawards
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Fam, I just read the second to last episode of our final season...
...and...
it f**ked me up.
@OITNB
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That's what I'm talking about!! Hell Yess!
Update: I just saw The Color Purple and loved it. I'm adding it to this list as one of my favorite movies of the year.
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Playing
#Sofia
has been the highlight of my career. Getting to live in the complexities of who she is - the quiet moments, the strong ones, her joy & sorrow - have all shaped me for this moment in time. I encourage you to do urself a favor and go see the film!💜
@TheColorPurple
Danielle Brooks continues to captivate audiences with her dynamic and magnetic performance as Sofia. Danielle, your
#TheColorPurple
family is beyond proud.
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A giant has left us today. Sending my prayers to his loved ones.
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A word.
Niecy Nash-Betts on thanking herself at the Emmys: “I’m the only one who knows how much it cost me. I’m the only one who knows how many nights I cried because I couldn’t be seen for a certain type of role.”
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My first single, Black Woman releases tomorrow! 2/1 can’t wait to share with you all. 🎶
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What he said. 👏🏿 🙏🏾
@voguemagazine
Put Danielle Brooks’ dress on the cover of Vogue 😍
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My muh fuk-ing president.
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I was 5 months pregnant, babies head was all on my lungs but a sista still did the damn thang. Hope you’ll catch us tomorrow night on PBS 9pm est.
#shakespare
#theatrekid
@GPerfPBS
1)
@thedanieb
's Beatrice is getting us through this Thursday with this 🔥 speech
You can watch it on repeat in this tweet, but you can also watch the fabulously edited version on
@GPerfPBS
this Friday at 9PM EST.
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Had a blast in London. Thank you for your hospitality 💜
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Let’s do it South Carolina. Let’s replace a confederate monument with a Chadwick Boseman memorial. Who’s with me? Sign in the link below.
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My birthday was yesterday, and I’m grateful for life, health, strength, and that my derriere is still lifted. 🙌🏾❤️😉
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