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Entity reports on Aisha Tyler's demanding speech that inequality be kicked down.

The Women’s March was just the start of an ongoing fight for diversity and equality, insists Aisha Tyler.

The “Criminal Minds” and “Archer” star is rallying women to keep battling for improvement and not back down.

After joining Charlize Theron and Chelsea Handler to lead the Women’s March at Sundance Film Festival, she followed up with a powerful speech delivered at the Autograph Collection/The Black List’s The Retreat at Sundance.

ENTITY presents seven lessons from that speech that everyone working to combat divisiveness and inequality needs to hear.

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1 Never stay discouraged.

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“When we first landed at that march…there was an overwhelming tenor of despair. [But] If people had let despair take them over and render them lethargic and hopeless – forget it, it’s never going to change.

“This is always going to be a boy’s business, this is always going to be a rich guy’s country, this is never going to be a place where I’m going to have a voice.’ If people had said that during slavery, during reconstruction, during suffrage, during Jim Crow, during the entire LGBT struggle, during Stonewall, during the fight for marriage equality, during the fight for trans rights, would we be where we are today? No.”

2 Don’t make excuses for yourself.

“There is no excuse for complacency. There is no excuse for despair. We’re here because of all the people who came before and said, ‘I will not despair. I will not be frustrated that so many doors have been slammed in my face.’

“Because it doesn’t matter if a thousand doors are slammed in your face. All you need is for one door to be left open – a crack – so you can kick that shit down.”

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3 Making change takes teamwork and continuous effort.

“I’m not a power woman, I don’t think of myself that way. I’m just scrambling to get enough to move your butt. I’m just trying to do my part, not just to get the door pried open a little wider for the next person.

But to show what can be done by showing myself what can be done. There is no success without industry and relentless effort every single day.”

4 Ignore the people telling you ‘It’s too hard’ or ‘It can’t be done.’

“Every comment that tells you that you can’t should fall away. The only voice you have to listen to is the one that tells you that you can.”

5 Use the discouraging comments to fuel you to work harder.

“Remember how many times people have told you this was never going to work. I’m not telling you to hold a grudge, but remember those people because they’ll be the first person to come up to you when your film debuts or your show gets picked up, [saying], ‘I always knew you were going to be a big hit. I saw it from the beginning.’

Just remember those people, they’ll be the first in line to tell you that they always knew you were going to make it. But you were the person who always knew you were going to make it.”

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6 Understand that everyone’s story is meaningful. Everyone’s.

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“So when we think about diversity in [the entertainment] business, just remember the fact that every story is meaningful, every story transforms.

Don’t be the person who says, ‘Well they think this isn’t going to mean anything, it’s not going to sell, it’s not going to work overseas, films about black women don’t work, films about science don’t work, films about black women doing science don’t work…’ They’re all always wrong.”

7 “Be relentless in your pursuit of excellence.”

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“Do your best work. Be as original as you could possibly be. Be relentless in your pursuit of excellence.

And then just wait for all the people who told you you couldn’t to line up at your front door and ask you to do their next project.”

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