(CNN) Issa Rae knows what she deserves, and she was not shy about telling everyone that while accepting an award at Wednesday's Women in Film Annual Gala.

While accepting the emerging entrepreneur award at the event, Rae delivered a speech that should inspire anyone with an ounce of self-doubt to stop wasting their time on that nonsense.

Though she began with a disclaimer that she was about to say the opposite of everything she'd normally say in a speech of this nature, Rae powered forward with an unapologetic ode to knowing your self-worth.

"Entrepreneur means I did that s--t by myself," Rae said, to a laughing audience, according to video from the event.

Those who come after her, she said, "need to bow down."

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