It’s still «Wakanda forever.»
SAG Awards 2019: ‘Black Panther’ wins big
Touching on the cultural impact of the film, starring a black cast, Boseman delivered a powerful speech that included a reference to Nina Simone’s legendary song, «To Be Young, Gifted and Black.»
«We know what it’s like to be told there’s not a screen for you to be featured on, a stage for you to be featured on. We know what it’s like to be the tail, but not the head,» Boseman said. «We know what it’s like to be beneath, but not above. And that is what we went to work with every day.»
«Because we knew not that we would be around during awards season or that it would make a billion dollars, but we knew that we had something special that we wanted to give the world,» he added.
