Viola Davis Wishes She Could Tell Her 13-Year-Old Self 'That She Was Enough'

Growing up in Central Falls, Rhode Island, Viola Davis always knew she and her five siblings had very little.
The How to Get Away With Murder star “realized we were poor,” she tells PEOPLE exclusively in this week’s cover story. “But I was making my way through it. You either hope or you don’t. And it was hope and dreams that made me put my feet on the floor every morning and just approach every day with a sense of enthusiasm. It was my fight or flight that kicked i