Michael B Jordan Accepts Entertainer of the Year While Urging Us to Lead With Love

I just want to thank all my other nominees in this category. I think you guys are great. I think you guys are phenomenal. You guys have amazing years and amazing careers and you've inspired me so much by the work that you guys do. So thank you. Mom, I love you. You are love in human form and you are my emotional North Star and you helped me become the man that I am today. I want to thank my dad who's not here today for always filling me in my mind with black history and knowledge to prepare myself to be in any room and to have the confidence that I know exactly who I am in a whole day conversation with anyone and be solid. My brother and my sister Jamila and Khalid, thank you guys for watching me chase my dreams while you're building yours and I am so freaking proud of you guys for what you guys have accomplished and I know you guys are proud of me so I just love you guys and keep going. I want to thank my team, Phil, Lindsey, Greg, my best friends, Chad, Sterling. I want to thank Yaz, Leo, all the people that had something to do with me getting here today. Everybody in this room, the NAACP, you know, I'm not here without you guys at all and for everybody at home in Newark, New Jersey that thinks that this is such a big difference and the gap is so big from where you are there to where I am, it's not that big of a gap. Just keep working hard, be a good person, leave with love and kindness like the world needs more humility, more grace, more empathy and it starts with us. We are an empathetic group of people, you know, and we love first so just keep leading with love and we will get to where we need to get to. All right, I love you guys. Thank you.