Oscar-winning
actress
Patricia
Arquette's
'people
of
color'
comment
at
the
Oscars
2015
stage
has
left
her
thinking.
After
weeks,
Patricia
said
she
could
have
made
her
backstage
remarks
in
a
more
eloquent
way
at
this
year's
Academy
Awards.
Arquette,
46,
has
been
facing
backlash
from
media
and
fans
for
her
backstage
speech
while
collecting
her
Best
Supporting
Actress
Oscar
for
'Boyhood'
last
month.
She
landed
in
trouble
by
calling
"people
of
color" to
fight
for
women's
rights
in
the
backstage
interview
during
the
ceremony.
"You
can't
go
back
in
time.
But,
I
guess
I
would
have
chosen
my
words
a
little
more
carefully.
I
think
the
way
people
perceived
it
is
not
the
way
at
all
I
intended."
The
actress,
who
also
clarified
what
she
meant
on
Twitter
following
the
post-Oscars
uproar,
went
on
to
say
that
helping
all
women
should
be
the
priority.
"Everyone
should
help
women.
Everyone
has
a
vested
interest.
Every
single
lesbian
and
transgender
woman
is
a
woman.
"Every
single
woman
in
the
African
American
community
is
getting
impacted.
Every
single
woman
in
the
Latino
community
is
being
impacted.
This
is
having
devastating
economic
consequences
across
the
board
[...]
If
people
can
throw
their
weight
behind
women
I
think
it
would
really
help
each
of
these
bases."
She
commented
then,
"
...
even
though
we
sort
of
feel
like
we
have
equal
rights
in
America,
right
under
the
surface,
there
are
huge
issues
that
are
applied
that
really
do
affect
women.
And
it's
time
for
all
the
women
in
America
and
all
the
men
that
love
women,
and
all
the
gay
people,
and
all
the
people
of
color
that
we've
all
fought
for
to
fight
for
us
now."
Patricia
got
her
first
Oscar
nod
and
won
for
her
performance
in
Boyhood.
On
the
stage,
she
urged
for
wages
equality
which
got
a
lot
of
accolades
from
leading
ladies
like
Meryl
Streep
and
Jennifer
Lopez.