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.
