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Chadwick Boseman’s ‘Young, Gifted And Black’ SAG Awards Speech Has Twitter Cheering With Pride

"Black Panther" achieved the night's biggest honor.

Black Panther's winning streak continues to extend throughout awards season, as the record-shattering film recently made history at Sunday night's 2019 Screen Actors Guild Awards.

In addition to this major feat, the film's leading man, Chadwick Boseman, delivered a rousing speech that served as motivation for Black fans everywhere.

The Marvel film was officially added to the history books as it became the first superhero movie to achieve the biggest and most coveted honor of the night: the award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

The movie beat out the likes of A Star Is Born, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody and Crazy Rich Asians.

While accepting the award with his beaming co-stars standing behind him, Boseman gave a beautiful speech highlighting the fact that the movie featured a majority Black cast comprising of actors who were finally not overlooked for their efforts.

"To be young, gifted and Black," he started. "We all know what it's like to be told there's not a screen for you to be featured on, there's not a stage for you to be featured on. We know what it's like to be the tail and not the head. We know what it's like to be beneath and 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 and that it would make a billion dollars, but we knew we had something special that we wanted to give the world."

Listen to his perfect speech, below:

  • The cast also celebrated their win with a pretty epic gif, backstage:

  • Twitter users, after viewing Boseman's speech, took to the platform to share how inspired they were by his words. See their reactions, below:

  • Black Panther's win has many convinced that they have a fair shot at winning in the coveted category for Best Picture at the forthcoming Academy Awards. Do you think they have a chance at taking home the biggest award in showbiz?

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