"Taking the opportunity to uplift..."

I'm late seeing this, Mahershala Ali's SAG speech in January 2017 for the amazing movie Moonlight, but this 2-minute speech is timeless.

"We see what happens when people are persecuted--they fold in on themselves. ... I was so grateful about in having the opportunity to play Juan was playing a gentleman who saw a young man folding into himself as a result of the persecution of his community. Taking the opportunity to uplift him and to tell him he mattered, he was okay and accept him. I hope that we do a better job of that."

Via blog Slowed Up, Slowed Down