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Toyin Odutola Quotes

Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: nigerian
Birth: 1985

Topics

People Black Artist Want Talk First

Continuity is a great thing; staying the course and being patient, those are important virtues. But also there is virtue in being realistic enough to know you have to make serious changes sometimes.

Great Enough You Know Sometimes

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Last Made Dependent Creatures

There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time.

Michael Emerson

Work Time Building Small Problems

Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

Game Slow Long Way Ball Long Way

Lincoln believed in the American people.

Steven Spielberg

People American American People

In tennis, you strike a ball just after the rebound for the fastest return. It's the same with investment.

You Strike Investment Tennis Same

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.

Michael Ritchie

Training Study Just Did Theater Had

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

Christopher Columbus

Morning Tomorrow Land See Found

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

Alison Goldfrapp

Path Think Slow Now Way Rather

Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling is important and underrated.

Story Think Important Want Tell

But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me.

Shaquille O'Neal

Me Game Nothing Way Right Earned

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

Money Lie Economy Wisely Does

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