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If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or a few videos on Youtube, and you're good.
David Oyelowo
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David Oyelowo
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: April 1
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I hear God as an audible voice.
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We're not served by only knowing our finest hours through film or media, or in the history that we are taught. I think the only way we have a chance to not make the same mistakes again, is to historically understand the bad behavior and mistakes we've made previously.
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There are many, many communities, many ethnic minorities, many civilizations that have been brutalised by others and you have to move on. You cannot perpetually stay in that place of blame, otherwise it's just a downward spiral.
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Considering how pervasive interracial marriage is, certainly in American society, it is rare we get to see it depicted on film.
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I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights.
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People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really.
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The perception of Africa, whether in the U.S. or in Europe, is of a continent that needs help, and cannot pull itself up. That is just not true.
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I love tennis, love it!
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One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.
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Dr. Martin Luther King was never a man to say 'I've got this' as the leader of the movement. He wasn't always sure that his decisions were correct, because he knew every decision he made was putting lives at risk, including his and his family's lives.
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I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in America is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally. I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.
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You're always looking for roles and other creatives who are going to be challenging to you, because you're always a better actor after the experience.
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Whether we like to admit it or not, as artists, we do project our own worldview on to what we do.
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I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.
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I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.
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I know for a fact the reason I'm an actor is because one, two, maybe three people when I was younger saw something that I did, in youth theater or some small play somewhere, and said, You're good.
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I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I'm really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I'm very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star's career combined.
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To break down prejudice is to get to a place of understanding, that can erode the ignorance.
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I think that having a black president in this country has been a seismic shift, in terms of what has been going on racially in America. I think that America is now engaging with how we have come to this point.
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I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.
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