David Oyelowo Quotes

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice. I intend to be part of the solution and not the problem. You've just got to keep on banging out good performances.

David Oyelowo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I always loved drama at school. We had a great drama teacher at my secondary school, and she made drama feel cool. She inspired me, and then I did the National Youth Theatre in London.

Joe Cole

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Depression is so exhausting - it takes up so much of your time and energy - and silence about it, it really does make the depression worse.

Andrew Solomon

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What some folks find funny, other folks find tragic.

Melvin Van Peebles

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I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.

Andre Benjamin

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Sadness is weak; I don't believe in weakness.

Angela Bowie

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Too many security officers live day to day. They just want to be treated with dignity.

John Wilson

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I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

Steve Martin

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I have to be invested spiritually, emotionally, and psychologically to do theater. I can't do it to make a living. I have four kids, a couple of grandkids, and two mortgages.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

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If I wanted to do 'The Missing Files of Missy Elliott,' I have probably six albums just sitting there.

Missy Elliott

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Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that.

Liya Kebede

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I play guitar, I jam on the piano, drums, and even the triangle.

Joseph Parker

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I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

Dorothy Day

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