"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.