Common’s Critics’ Choice Awards Speech Was Charming, Powerful & Perfect

The Oscars didn’t get a lot of things right when it came to “Selma,” though electorate were intelligent adequate to put Common and John Legend in a Best Original Song difficulty for “Glory.” The lane won dual awards this week, initial during a Golden Globes and afterwards during a Critics’ Choice Awards. Common supposed both trophies

Thank you, Ava DuVernay, for creation a initial underline film about Dr. King so beautifully. When Ava initial listened “Glory,” a initial draft, she was like, “That’s good, though we need something bigger, like ‘We Are The World.'” we said, “‘We Are a World’? You articulate Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, ‘We Are a World’? 20 million copies, ‘We Are The World’?” No pressure, right Ava? Well, we knew a suggestion and goal of that song, and we knew a suggestion and goal of “Selma,” and of what Dr. King is about. That’s love, that’s justice, that’s freedom. For all people. We combined “Glory” in that spirit.

Watch Common’s full speech, that also includes a touching reverence to his father, below:

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