Tyra Banks discussed how 'America's Next Top Model' didn't always 'get it right' at a speech made during Essence's Black Women in Hollywood awards.

Tyra Banks didn't always "get it right" on "America's Next Top Model," she told attendees at the ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Awards, adding: "I said some dumb s–t." Banks was the event's first Luminary Spotlight honoree on Feb.

Tyra Banks accepts the Luminary Spotlight at Essence's 18th Annual Black Women in Hollywood Awards, acknowledging some of the more problematic aspects of her America's Next Top Model, but arguing that she and the show should be remembered more for its groundbreaking strides in representation.

Tyra Banks is ready to return to modeling as she reflects on 'America's Next Top Model's empowering and problematic legacy.

"We fought to bring diversity to that television show at a time when it didn’t exist, a time when people in the fashion industry were telling me, 'Oh, you putting girls from the hood on your show?' " Banks said.

I refuse to have my legacy be about some stuff linked together on the Internet when there were 24 cycles of changing the world,” Banks said at a Feb. 27 awards show