David Oyelowo Quotes

If you feel like the beginning of your history is rooted in slavery, that really, I think, messes with your sense of self, your self-esteem, and your self-worth.

David Oyelowo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 1, 1976

Topics

HistoryBeginningSlaveryThinkSelf

I love getting into people's brains and understanding the creative impetus for something.

Meghan Markle

LoveCreativePeopleUnderstanding

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

Jeff Bridges

CareerActingDoneMoviesMakeMain

There's a time when it was an event for a black person to be on television. Where black households would gather around, 'Oh, you know, Sammy Davis is going to be on 'All in the Family' tonight! Let's go check it out!' It was a big, big thing.

Sterling K. Brown

FamilyTimeBlackYouTelevisionGo

I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies.

Tommy Kirk

GayWillNeverAshamedBeingBeen

Wanting a more positive environment isn't enough. You need to do something, and it doesn't require a great deal of effort or some huge change in the way you approach things at work.

Tom Rath

PositiveWorkChangeGreatEffort

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

Robert Farrar Capon

RightOwnUnemploymentShockBecomes

Parents are to be respected - it Is a commandment from God.

Monica Johnson

GodParentsRespectedCommandment

Life is best when you are in love.

Michael Moriarty

LifeLoveBestYou

What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Joyce Meyer

FreedomHappyWayRealBeingJust

Anytime you get to go up against guys that have done well in this league, who have dominated in this league, you have got to rise to the challenge.

Doug Baldwin

ChallengeYouRiseGoDoneUp

To be honest, after all the crap that happened with 'Summer Heights High,' I was like, 'I'm not going to write anything controversial or edgy ever again; I just can't handle the blame.'

Chris Lilley

BlameSummerHeightsEdgyHigh

The Republican movement have not behaved properly over the years. They have not themselves implemented the Agreement. If they had implemented the Agreement then they would have disarmed completely in May 2000, that is what they undertook to do, that is what they failed to do.

David Trimble

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