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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
Yvonne Villarreal

How Sheryl Lee Ralph and Dianne Reeves pulled off the Emmys' 'best acceptance speech. Ever'

"I am an endangered species/ But I sing no victim's song/ I am a woman, I am an artist/ And I know where my voice belongs."

For a fleeting moment at this week's Emmys, it was story time with Sheryl Lee Ralph. After the visibly shocked performer took the stage Monday night to accept her first-ever Emmy — winning supporting actress in a comedy for her role as veteran kindergarten teacher Barbara Howard in ABC's "Abbott Elementary" — she took a moment to bask in the ovation and then to gather herself.

And then she sang.

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